Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pennies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

pennies	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	7.7	25	19
ORK - Orkney	29.8	3	3
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	9.8	3	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	10.1	4	3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	9.1	2	2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	8	6	3
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)	18.2	1	1

Occurrences of pennies 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
pounds? Phew! Wir no spikkan pennies. No. The last that I haard, t on page 79

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
wae pennies fae his pocket. on page 18

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Left in the press; pennies fur the van. on page 47

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
da perishables is reduced ta pennies. You coodna miss her, among d on page 42

1 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
He shot aff shotguns, rowd pennies, öt swiet haar aff a stikk. on page 21

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
r. His een war steekit wi twa pennies , his hauns faulded afore him
shed an caimbed, forbye's the pennies , he micht hae bin gewttin rea
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ime aerodrome nearby. A lot o pennies started tae faa intae place a
1 matches

General Northern

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 58 - The Bothy Loon, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
I kent fine that there wis 12 pennies in a shillin and 20 shillins on page 124

1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
@piersmorgan look after the pennies and the pounds'll look after (2011)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
state. Knockin yer pan in fur pennies so's some clapped-oot nae-use on page 1

1 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
an needs tae hae a puckle oO' pennies tae joogle in his pooch. on page 25

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
At first it wis juist ha'pennies, pennies an thruppenny bits t on page 58

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ership fee, here it wis a few pennies, an that tells ye a lot. on page 59

1 matches

Glasgow

Atkins, Elise Billy Barr ’n’ Jonny Jimison’s Day Oot!, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Central, prose
wa bairns, that’ll be fower pennies .” The man said cheerfully.
1 matches

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
like tae grow up without two pennies tae rub taegether, and gied m
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
whitever his wecht in punds, pennies and oonces, on page 29

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ured tae the pile o rusty two pennies, and we scooped them up like on page 31
cnic. No when ah'd barely two pennies tae rub taegether and a man w on page 51
she reared hur in wi'oot two pennies to rub together. Lizzie'd a g on page 52

3 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
NO juist sweeties and pennies fae heaven on page 77

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
New pennies then ecus hiv replaced the si on page 42

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
weeda wumman drappin ïn twa pennies. "A'm tellin yis tha truith," on page 105

1 matches