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The word 'peers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
peersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus82616
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 25.4 10 4
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
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 peers in Corpus

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Shetland

Nicholson, Hannah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Smooriken, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Shetland, prose
all. We kent at if ony © wir peers spied twa lasses sharin a smo on page 52

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
n year auld, o an age fin his peers war wirkin, an noo that his f
1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 90 - The Trump, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, poetry
An A peers at im unner the lump. on page 35

1 matches

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - Snog, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ll. We kint fine if ony o oor peers clocked twa quines sharin a s on page 53

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Peers oot i'windae, wearin' i'sark on page 115
Peers oot i'windae tae greet i'day on page 132

2 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
oan his nose, peers at me ower the tap. Ma ankles on page 1

4 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 59 - In Dispraise o Eden, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
ere hinnie-blobs an drap-ripe peers, on page 91

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Thochts o Speakin Scots, (peffers50.freeserve 2001) Central, prose
nformal forgaitherins o thair peers? Efter bein telt for years at
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
n been uphaudit bi kenspeckle peers the likes o Hugh MacDiarmid,
1 matches

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
arents, bi yer bosses, bi yer peers, bi the bams on social media,
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
n Scots, no even frae its ain peers that's professed Scots leid u
cots, particular bi thair ain peers. The estaiblishment an the me
2 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
language o their middle-cless peers micht in ony wey be education
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Ane o the men, unlike his peers, wis unshair o the very chair on page 98

1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 59 - In Dispraise o Eden, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
ere hinnie-blobs an drap-ripe peers, on page 91

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
learnin wis throu uphaud fae peers, vizzy o the wark o ithers, a on page 7
edia is a resource vizzied bi peers, an syne, if ye edit somethin on page 48

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
re hinnie--blobs an drap-ripe peers, on page 52

1 matches

Jarvie, Gordon Lallans 74 - Kenspeckle Man, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Duncan wha helpt his peers I hymn
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Inti the lanesum nicht she peers on page 34

1 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
as treated differently gae ma peers socially and educationally. E (2020) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
hit wis thrummelt intae me bi peers on page 13

1 matches

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