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The word 'perra'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
perraOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3113
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 44.4 10 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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)

Occurrences of perra in Corpus

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West Central

Dalgetty, Moira Lallans 104 - The Best Laid Schemes..., (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
id ken tae wheesht, Ah took a perra nail scissors oot ma bag and on page 102

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
r aff. So Mrs Wormwidd took a perra scissors and cut the thing af on page 30
the smock, were troussed in a perra gyre breeks, bottle-green and on page 77
ill stammygastered tae meet a perra them in the flesh. on page 93
nkled this stuff inside every perra knickers in the drawer and fo on page 101
a lassie aboot ten wha hud a perra pleated gowden pigtails hingi on page 106
Also on pages 227, 229
7 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
at me, Heh how'd yi no get a perra duck feet tae go wi yir wings on page 13

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2020) Central, prose
t me, Heh how’d yi no get a perra duck feet tae go wi yir wings
1 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
wid; went doon the shops wi a perra knickers on his heid, tellt t
1 matches

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