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The word 'pounds'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
poundsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42819
ORK - Orkney 59.6 6 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 pounds in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
t the Grammar, fur twenty-wan pounds doon. on page 3
Me lesson cost me eighty pounds. His wife sent me the bill. on page 8
ckle then - cheust twa-three pounds each week on page 33
n the jackpot - four million pounds the night?" on page 40
'Three hunder pounds! You're aff yer heid! We dinn on page 51
Also on pages 79
6 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
up, an took da answer doon ta pounds, shillins an pence. on page 112

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
useful, id's worth a hundred pounds! He says id kills all e rats on page 22

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
, "we charging forty Engleesh pounds." on page 7

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
an that jist lost thoosands o pounds worth o dental work. I ran oo
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ah won five pounds on the thunder ba hinmaist ni(2018)
e wifie - ah won twinty five pounds on the national lottery hinma(2018)

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
st you one hundred and twelve pounds," be the lassie ahin the
"Jist the usual, twenty pounds worth". Plastic gaed Jonsar a
2 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
or a hunner an fifty thoosand pounds an that it wid be paid on the
1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
ook after the pennies and the pounds'll look after themselves!(2011)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
'Hundred pounds,' the suit says. 'For doing n on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
st handed him twelve thousand pounds to write a play about why his on page 50
be no more than five thousand pounds. But don't worry. Eventually on page 52

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
y to the king the soume of xx pounds.
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Millions o pounds worth o plant wir destroyed, on page 79

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Think o auchteen pounds in the mornin.' on page 113

1 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
. And if I ever win a million pounds I will give out ten pound not(2020)

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
n it shut, the dug’s weight pounds intae it, pushin back at me,
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
s inside, gettin louder as it pounds alang the loabby, thuddin int
1 matches

General Central

McLeish, Alistair Lallans 102 - Eco Cheil, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
's saunies stappit fou Belchn pounds o CO2, Sittn surfn, injin run on page 39

1 matches

Perrie, Walter Lallans 73 - The Tod an the Stoat, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
has sellt us aa for pounds an pence." on page 54

1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ry Lineker millions o' feckin pounds tae talk pish and mak it mair(2021)

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