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The word 'perish'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
perishOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus41311
ORK - Orkney
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of perish in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
e hedd waakin fae ae end o da perish tae da tidder (nae vans dan), on page 1

1 matches

Williamson, Christie Guide, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, poetry
Du’d perish athoot
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ord, save hiz or we'll seerly perish." An he says tae them, "Fit a on page 17
ugh an tae spare forbye, an I perish wi hunnger. A'll haud awa tae on page 107

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
him eenoo. Gin she iver (God perish the thocht) takk dementia, as
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e kick a mate when he's doon. Perish the fuckin thoat. Ah only cam on page 66

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
A thoosand perish at ae puff
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
v a black bag ower ma head - perish the thought lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
ane at belíeves in him mayna perish but hae eternal life. Fleming on page 136

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
Till ah perish bi dirdums or sonsie auld age on page 36

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
heidit speshie micht aye self-perish bi a certain stage, an we oor
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
epent, tha hale lock o yis'll perish as weel. Or whut aboot tha ec on page 93

2 matches

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