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The word 'pow'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
powOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.54828
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen 42 4 2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 33.5 13 4
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 32 3 3
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 9
SEA - South East (Borders) 60.6 5 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.8 3 3
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal) 605.7 1 1
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 pow in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
And I lay on me back in a pow o bluid, lukkan up at a forei on page 63

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Wateries, Pow, Mire, Gitter Pitten on page 11
g back up tae the ushal curly pow when I let hid go. I kinna mi on page 99

3 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ie, raivelin Ronnie's huddery pow. "A dinna ken fit wye ye lut on page 54

1 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
sets my bauld pow birlin
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
muckle heid, wi gowpin een, a pow o tousie hair that looked lik on page 40
ie, scrattin awa at his curly pow, gowped at him. 'Ah dinna thi on page 42

3 matches

Lawrie, Alistair Northwords Now 45 - The Win, (Northwords Now 2024) Doric - Peterhead, prose
citin tae be there. An granda Pow wid tak ye on his knee an ask
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
he Third Reich and a Japanese POW camp but in the end it wis a on page 62

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
l itssel," Airchie babbit his pow at the hoose syne leukit doun on page 125

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
r-auld bairn's, an' creish my pow wi' the claggiest pomatum she
Catherine P. Slater's "Marget Pow") intae a database an uized t
"O wae's me on yer auld pow,
3 matches

Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
l itssel," Airchie babbit his pow at the hoose syne leukit doun
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
Catherine P. Slater, Marget Pow
erly 20t century novel Marget Pow bi Catherine P. Slater, in a
Catherine P. Slater: Marget Pow.
3 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Koan, (sandyfleming.org 2005) Central - East Lothian, poetry
He shaks his auld pow
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
aff hiz bunnet an skartit hiz pow ti eise the process o thocht.
The Rid Douglas clawed hiz pow. He thocht the store bot a wu
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
lest month anent the Eytalian POW's shoogilt the memory o ane o
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
poetrie bi John Manson an Tom Pow. At the time o skreivin this on page 3

1 matches

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
g an straikin her lover-boy's pow, on page 141

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
uid liklie be a cause o a bit pow-clawin thare tae. The uise o on page 11

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ir Isabel buried wee Jennet's pow in her apron - ower late. on page 47

1 matches

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 83 - Cochise o the Apache Nation, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
sun haes been unco het oan ma pow on page 25

1 matches

Wallace, Lorna A Scot’s Lament fur her American Fellows (Oan their election of a tangerine gabshite walloper)., (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2016) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Ti pow’r supreme, ti stert his hat
1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
I hae the pooer; on his pow I place the gowden ring. on page 36

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Ye Pow'rs wha're wae me every hoor, on page 105

1 matches

White, Ian Nimmo Lallans 102 - Ooergless, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
Anderson's pow is frosty for shair on page 46

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
IT CLAGGERS UP A YOUNG YIN'S POW on page 158

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Round your bare pow tume o dreams, on page 11
scrat blyth baudrons' thrumfu pow on page 23

2 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
nnin tae thin oot on his bare pow, an at the grey grizzle o his on page 17

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 56 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
interestin ootwale is Marget Pow, a novel bi Catherine Porton on page 15

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
e lichtshad abune es hairless pow. He'd been aboot tae sey a wh on page 18

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ulkes Blessings on yer frosty pow.(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
he auldest, marriet ane o the Pow’s o ‘The Vales’,
asel, A kan juist mynd on Eck Pow the
’ickbrae laird, hed lat Eck Pow’s auld byre, faa doun. At b
ith ferms. Col. Fasson wis ae POW wi the Japs i the 1939-46 War
Branxholm Wudend. Ay, Wullie Pow wis the ferrier yonner i ma
5 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
l no be back again aside this pow on page 25

1 matches

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
afuego Press wi the makar Tom Pow and stairtit his ain imprint on page 91

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
auld stake net stobs tae the Pow's mooth, cannae bate it ?? ht(2020)

Donegal (East Donegal)

Millar, Alan Yarns 3 - Sammy Thomson's, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - East Donegal, prose
bouk o a woman, froze solid, pow dusted wi a scruif o frost st
1 matches

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