Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pets'

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Use in varieties of Scots

pets	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4	13	10
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	13.1	4	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.1	2	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	2
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)

Occurrences of pets 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.

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
iday shü startit boardin dir pets whin dey wir awa. Got on bett on page 15
an fokk hed a job gettin dir pets back. Shü even hedd da polic on page 16

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ed tae shelts, tho. Fair made pets o them, thocht mair o them wh
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
yer kittlin company “cause pets are fleggit bi firewirks.. Bi
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
-doos. She can illustrate yer pets fae £70. https://t.co/P6Ikkp(2018)
on owners, claw up aifter yer pets. https://t.co/m4kFlnFUya(2018)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
An aa i'pets wi ma buddy, on page 133

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
such hings happen tae folk's pets every day. on page 155

1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
or my very ain. Thir had been pets previously: oor Rab had got a
1 matches

Dundee

Rebecca, Casey and Stephen The Baby Dragon, the Wolves and the Lassies, (Scots Hoose 2017) Doric, weans
ge wi the twa wolves as their pets .
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Nae Pets Allowed on page 18

1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
but ye have tae keep a few as pets ??(2020)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
the disease spreids tae pets on page 25

1 matches