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The word 'pea'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
peaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.72911
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 335.6 3 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 85 8 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 40.2 8 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 pea in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern B

Crawford, Jack The Pluffer, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
luffer and took aim. I shot a pea right at him and it hit him i
spotted ma freen so I shot a pea at his heid. He turned roond
story. I wis aboot to shoot a pea at the front of the class and
3 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
’s tree tae pluff throw wir pea-shooters, an siclike splores.
1 matches

General Northern

Innes, Brian P. Tales Fae The Doric Side - Thochts o a Teacher, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
, wi goldfish. We bocht three pea hen eggs as weel an hatched t on page 50

2 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
THE SWEET PEA
Eck landed back at the sweet pea wifie. He
P.P.S. If a sweet pea did gruw aside yon timmer fen
3 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
the warkers, naw, naw, ham an pea, or lentil, or cockieleekie o on page 56
ays at the docks had aye been pea an ham soup. Oh but it wis ra on page 57
's an he wis fair daft on her pea an ham soup. He'd sometimes h on page 58
a notion for a plate o Nan's pea an ham soup, replied a slicht on page 60
is dennir. As usual there wis pea an ham soup an Dod cuidnae he on page 61

8 matches

Glasgow

Smith, Elaine C. The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Totally Princessy Princess, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central - Glasgow, weans
The Princess and the Pea on page 8
en she pit a wee single green pea (dried, no tinned) ontae the on page 12
see if she can feel that wee pea through aw that - that's ma on page 13
rincess. "It felt mair like a pea." on page 14

7 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
et in front ay his face – a pea an ham.
1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
The eastlins fowk, brocht pea-cods oot on page 49

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
w @DunsPitcus, CheJoanna an @Pea(2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
nal It's pathetically common. Pea brains never learned tae coun (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
aw ower the pea-riggs,
1 matches

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