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The word 'pouerfu'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pouerfuOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.42415
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of pouerfu in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
t moofu o the wirds. He hid a pouerfu voice, Jock, bit nae a sweet
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
auld tricks. Pat Duguid wis a pouerfu chiel an cud easy makk things
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
aitherin, tae watch the maist pouerfu chiels in the lan toss the ca
1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
t hae bin Merlin, I felt that pouerfu, takkin a bare bit paper an f on page 51

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 2), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
lish airchers cam in wi their pouerfu lang bows an began the slauch
1 matches

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
e be seekent bi the words o a pouerfu person. Ma freend said she fe
oy an pyne, feelins as raw an pouerfu as they ever wir. But it will
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
redd an Rogue Trooper) wi his pouerfu airtwark whase shedaes create
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
n The Edinburgh Magazine an a pouerfu warker on Scott's Minstrelsy on page 137
, it sypes bluid (a quaet but pouerfu vyce frae heiven), shawin wha on page 138

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ist help tae keep the rich an pouerfu in their poseetions o preevel on page 33
he land interest his aye been pouerfu in Scotland an there's nae pr on page 83

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
rk. He wis a short, stocky an pouerfu mannie that wis kennt fer bei on page 108

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Pouerfu as only innocence can be, on page 61
Wi the maist pouerfu oracle in the warld on page 118

2 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
force in law, but it is a gey pouerfu statement o international opi on page 18

1 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
they wrocht. It maun hae been pouerfu emotive sangs o hame an infan on page 11

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
e ideal o correckness is that pouerfu at it bauchles the grammar o on page 9

1 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
Maugre the pouerfu subjeck maitter, the story se on page 127

1 matches

@ClashCityClarky tweeted
@ashdouglasscot - this is as pouerfu as the Scots language gets. h(2020)

@billykayscot tweeted
irkyaird an see the monument. Pouerfu stuff! Archie Fisher sings it(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ae jammie piece. Shei hed ae pouerfu steven
made eet intil ae pouerfu motor (twae gearboxes) at cui
2 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ip an wul heft wi' forderin a pouerfu notion o' on page 52

1 matches

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