A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'plonkers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
plonkersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.863
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 10.1 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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)

Occurrences of plonkers in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
alise yun isna how it works?! Plonkers. Imagine goin tae yun length (2021)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
lcourier question is theres 2 plonkers have actually liked this post (2021) twitter link
r - scottish cup doesnt need plonkers like yous in it - clowns oh (2020) twitter link
@pieandbov aye there the plonkers that get pished oan a couple (2020) twitter link
re players - n the coaches r plonkers - n nae comment lol (2020) twitter link

General Central

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
a total mystery why they two plonkers Leighton and Goram were getti
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