A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'plastered'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
plasteredOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7126
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 12.7 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 plastered in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
The look ae bemusement plastered oor ma puss musta telt her ah on page 29
The look ae disgust plastered acroass Alana's puss at the m on page 80
xpression that says 'why no?' plastered acroass his puss, on page 107
go in and ignore aw the signs plastered acroass the wah that are yase on page 121
ah kin see aw ae these signs plastered aboot wae aw these different on page 177

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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
is mou open. The puir man wis plastered. Guzul normally doled the stu
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
, the yins that are carefully plastered acroass the wahs. Each yin br
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
encouraged the feelin ae bein plastered. Stumblin intae lampposts and
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
cks his airm oot, His hair is plastered tae his heid wi sweat. on page 12

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ssive barn. The barn hus been plastered and emulsioned white inside b on page 4

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ettin some pooders and creams plastered aw ower her coupon. "I'll nee on page 137

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@ThonJacobite tweeted
a see through negligee, mooth plastered wae red lipstick. Asked for s (2021) twitter link

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