Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'peeps'

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Use in varieties of Scots

peeps	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	24.6	82	12
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	44.3	10	3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	4.9	2	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	80.1	61	4
SEA - South East (Borders)	72.7	6	1
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 peeps 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.

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs Use of the common good fund for slap-up feed merely follows in grand old tradition, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
g tae nothing. We met in Peep Peeps , which is noo shut; a shame b
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Dour, dull mornin, sin en peeps oot,
En the sin peeps throo sae fine an rare.
Sin peeps throo, happy I div feel
3 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Sin peeps oot an it dis bide fair.
En taewards nicht the sin peeps oot,
Sin peeps throo wi a bonny blue sky,
En oot peeps the sin wi plenty o heat,
4 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
plates roond the back o peep peeps. #happydays https://t.co/5jMh(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
h me in the Neptune, nor Peep Peeps, or blawing ma pipe in the Me(2019)
he table! Oh ma heed! Is Peep Peeps still deen pensioners rates! (2020)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
a or youse are for it!' Jeesy peeps, whit am I gaunae tell Treeze on page 1

2 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
Finally, she peeps up fae her computer screen �
1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
Daddy, cheesey peeps! Thae peat bogs are the very on page

1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
Morning peeps.. Another lie in this morning (2023) twitter link
Afternoon peeps... Well that's the jalopy pas (2023) twitter link
Morning peeps.. It's dry oot.. A slight bre (2022) twitter link
Right peeps.. Naw messing aboot here.. Ay (2023) twitter link
Morning peeps.. Mmm, a bit driech looking o (2022) twitter link
and 38 other occurrences.

@jax6754 tweeted
ssion wi @JeffBrazier ?go oan peeps why no gie it a try just go t(2015)
Its oot peeps! If you snooze you lose peeps(2015)
AE BE HEAR! Sorry fir shoutin peeps! ? http://t.co/VffNJeJNyt(2015)
time tae study! See you later peeps! xxx http://t.co/aQp1w65bJ9(2015)
new beginning! Hae a guid yin peeps! Nicht awe! xxx(2015)
and 3 other occurrences.

@MartinBroon tweeted
that! Soooo, yeez are keepin peeps up tae date then? A might huv(2020)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
experiences! Every day we see peeps expressing SEXISM and R(2020)
when a was in Norway, some of peeps a ken, mentioned that ma appe(2020)
ts manifesto dinnae help Deaf peeps regarding equality which SNP (2020)
o years... those Victorians peeps were fuckin ignorant and thou(2020)
h workmates inc some military peeps, once we were in NAAFI, drank(2020)
and 1 other occurrences.

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
the girns o yowes an peeps o whaups ootby, a wheen o kee on page 77

1 matches