A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'plebs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
plebsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 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) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of plebs in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
tor inventin weys ti keep the plebs doon. He wisna a man ti tak l on page 54

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
write a sentence - the words plebs/simpletons and hauf wits come (2020) twitter link

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
(It's as bad as thae tinkte plebs on page 113

1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
manding the same if any of us plebs dare say a word no on their P (2022) twitter link

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
rhymes. Whar is Campbell the plebs "Magog"? We scan the stanes a on page 30

1 matches

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
bsShoes72 Benidorm is for the plebs. I'm aff to a caravan in Mill(2016)