A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'payment'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
paymentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
ORK - Orkney
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 58.1 1 1
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 payment in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
ake toolboxes full of junk as payment.’
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ell your mither at's the last payment fae me an, watch the tears in
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"Cough up, sir wolf, it's payment time." on page 31

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
bot thai that he wil mak ful payment for. Ande that na man use sik
1 matches

General Central

White, George Juist a wee while back, (Facebook 2024) Central, poetry
Naw…thay wid hae been puir payment
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Dickey, William Yarns 3 - Annual General Report, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ballymena, prose
ision has been made to accept payment via PayPal only, as the tende
1 matches

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