A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'cent'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
centOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.74217
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 42 4 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 137.6 3 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 31 5 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.4 11 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 120.1 12 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cent in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
pronto, ah'm deductan ten per cent on page 65

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Sky high fuel prices maks trows lie low, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
y mebbe tae geng up bi 40 per cent, I canna blame dem.
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Fit tae dae aboot obesity?, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
the NHS also fund that 58 per cent o fowk fa suffer fae depressi
a pack o 20. ’At’s 90 per cent less cigarettes for mair than
the price. Yet still, 20 per cent o Scotland’s population arn
3 matches

Uri, Antonia Here's the problem wi the trad wife muivement, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
Seventy per cent o Scots weemin wark, either a
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
ae the state rose by 97.5 per cent in 2016. The lack o ony ither
tastically positive: a 27 per cent increase in visitors steyin a
at hotels an B and Bs; 20 per cent mair spent by visitors on bev
3 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
able man. Caw it a hunner per cent. Your reign ae terror ends th on page 200

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West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
He chairges 50 per cent a week oan the money he's len on page 110

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Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
ainge that – no even 55 per cent o’ fowk tellin’ me ah’m
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Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie O pigs and dugs: what for dae we treat them sae different?, (Mak Forrit 2024) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ll likely be amang the 86 per cent o pigs in the UK1 kilt in gas
uchterhoose last year. 86 per cent o pigs in the UK is kilt in u
n greement anent this: 63 per cent o us is in fauvours o the gov
survey fund that only 14 per cent o Brítons even kent aboot th
RSPCA says that aboot 60 per cent o soos in the UK is keepit in
5 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
t he isnae being a hunner per cent serious. on page 59

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Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ay it. Sais it’s thirty per cent a week interest. Bog standard
1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
Aye, as much as forty per cent o' a thin' we dae ivry day ar on page

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Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
islands - the airts o 20 per cent or muckler densitie. Yon are on page 12
t in airts whaur least 20 per cent o the population haed leid sk on page 13
order, wi a tairget o 100 per cent. She addit that this required on page 35
es been an approximate 50 per cent drap in the level o proveesio on page 39
nd - or pairt-fund - 39 per cent o projects in the last fundin on page 58

5 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ies Inglis mair nor fifty per cent o the wirds i The Oxford Engl
otower the twa. Up tae 95 per cent o the cunyies discovert in Sc
onversely three tae fower per cent o the cunyies discovert in En
3 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
d ower in Scotland - 1.7 per cent o the population - reportit
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@ClashCityClarky tweeted
tion. But oors wan hunner per cent is.(2020)

General Ulster

North South Ministerial Council Twa Thoosan an Six - Twalmond Fynnin, (Ullans Speakers Association 2007) Ulster, government
olymer Throch-pittin Screegin Centèr in tha Quaen's on page 3

3 matches

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
Cultùral Centèrs on page 51
(d) Graith an fordèr centèrs in thair ain airts 'at's on page 52

9 matches

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