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The word 'pounce'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pounceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
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 pounce in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
an waetan fur me tae pounce upon on page 145

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
ha'll bide der time, ready ta pounce, on page 48

1 matches

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
ot trow da hay, he's ready ta pounce. Oot he springs, peltin up da
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
en shuid she creep or try tae pounce on page 8
He wis aa set tae pounce on page 17

2 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
disappeared as ah decided tae pounce.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
l the vultures coodnae wait 2 pounce once they saw who it was - t (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
wait fer its opportunity tae pounce, an it wisnae lang eftir the on page 97

1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ils lik a predator waitin tae pounce. on page 42

1 matches

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