A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'powny'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pownyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.894
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 1
SHD - Shetland
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 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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 powny in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ot a bit owlder I took me own powny there tae git shod and wid wa on page 33

4 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
for the likes o "liberty" an "powny" (nae sic things as a "libert
an the fowk/folk, bowk/boak, powny/pony differs that as faur as
2 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
the Bruce oan a fleet hielant powny on page 128

1 matches

General Central

@IshbelMcF tweeted
rryGiles cf. the Scots word ‘powny’ with the sound ‘ow’ (as i(2018)