A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'powl'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
powlOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.863
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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 powl in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
n a roon ludge wi a cottonwid powl at its mids. At its tap wis a
s war tethered tae the middle powl bi thongs threidit ben slits
2 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
furth-settin ti the snellryfe Powl. Aw wes reddies ti halp in ma on page 1

1 matches

General Central

MacMinto, Gregor The Magic Brainch, (wordpress 2021) Central, blog
Awa tae the jungle an bring a powl fur the chap.’ The clay dav
‘But a maun pey ma thrashin powl some mense. Gie’s a bittie
ch an worshipped his thrashin powl as a god. He wis the first Ra
3 matches

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