A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pr'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
prOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22414
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 22.2 5 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 25.1 5 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of pr in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
Meenie. A’m niver felt dis pr aamos afore.
ead, I wis done. Meenie wis a pr crachtless craetir an aa. We
2 matches

Aberdeen

Philp, George Lallans 67 - Thochts anent Sangschaw and Penny Wheep, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Doric, poetry
Whan fower an twinty, I príed your Bonnie Broukit Bairn on page 139

1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
_gary @gdog2010_john Aye like Pr-ick nae you min??(2020)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ch's 'Heich Ploy' - a glossy PR screed then fowk cry it doun
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
in Jekyll an Hyde (originally pr. Jeekyll), Ah felt right at h
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
in mr p - good tae c the new pr officer fo the burra up early (2020) twitter link

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
mukkil kemp o the Scots leid, Pr. Sandy Fenton, haes passed aw on page 5

2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
Editit bi Pr. Ton Hoenselaars, it haes sax on page 116

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
Pr. Ted Cowan's on the politics on page 9

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
ul racin identity an yin-time PR agent wha cawed hissel presid
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ae cobbled thegither wi their PR crew. Baith them an the polit on page 37

1 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
s Euroconstitouensies, wi thi PR. Misfortunatelie this canna q
owk thai wants tae hiv in the PR saets. Housummivver it maun b
t seestems warrandyces parfit PR an can be run in twa weys: th
s bi haein the votars uize ae PR vote on ae day an, gin summbo
FPTP. It disna gie an aefauld PR vote an it is mair dearer as
5 matches

General Central

Philip, George Lallans 56 - Scotsoun Thereanent, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
Príe-in the Scotsoun archive ma on page 46

2 matches

@RickHJohnston tweeted
oor using a Unionist-designed PR system. https://t.co/jtcBnJWu (2023) twitter link

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
Sunak @Douglas4Moray And what précis dae ye think thay are da(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
g it under wraps for a proper PR launch. No! Wasnae me! ??(2020)