A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'papay'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
papayOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.583
ORK - Orkney 79.5 8 3
SHD - Shetland
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of papay in Corpus

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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The Fast Train tae Papay on page 90
Wae soon came tae Papay, brecks skrekan tae slow is d on page 91

4 matches

Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
spring watter in Westray and Papay and also, less frequently the
1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
@julianbrans To use a Papay saying, it's "as common as Ge (2020) twitter link
4 years old, from the Holm of Papay. A good half inch of pure whi (2020) twitter link
ongly recommend a trip oot to Papay. It's got peedie bits of ever (2021) twitter link

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