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The word 'peasant'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
peasantOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4137
ORK - Orkney
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.3 10 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 peasant in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
"Such a charming imitation of peasant dress," sed anidder ene. "It on page 35

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 1), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
ies nae offert tae yer uisual peasant.
1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Peasant land-tiller, on page 23

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
al on Ingland an hauds up the peasant risings o Fraunce (1359) an I on page 110

1 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
The peasant stude facin the doctor, at th
And the peasant, douncast, said yince mair:
The peasant, a lang skinnymalink, slow in
e suner wis he alane than the peasant turnt tae his
But the peasant wis pensefu. Fine weel he ken
6 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
or the deil, but raither tae peasant tradeetions an tales. Deed, a
1 matches

Geddes, Jenny Fling the creepie in January, (McRenegade.Scots 2018) Central, blog
s prefer it in prose. (albeit peasant Scots... ah've nae tim' fer '
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
@HurchinHome 'Peasant Poets Old And New'. So many f(2020)