A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'princes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
princesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82616
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 19.5 8 5
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 5
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 princes in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
een an her heid wis reelin wi princes an paupers an reid-wud roarin
1 matches

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
events, mibbe hae a picnic in Princes Street Gairdens an jist hae a
rtit aff waatchin e Parade in Princes Street. Ilky morning, Margit
d frae e Castle merches alang Princes Street. Noo I div like a pipe
Margit an me we waakt doon ti Princes Street Gairdens.
rs – een o the big shops in Princes Street. She needed ti match s
6 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Naewey tae bide, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
than 8,000 fowk slept roch on Princes Street Gairdens, raisin juist
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ches who hud a jeweller's oan Princes Street. This wis yin ae they on page 17
ds motor and draggin him doon Princes Street. Of course, he wid be on page 36

2 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
rabbed it an ran Pe. doon tae Princes Street. The staff at Jenners on page 81

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Gowden Gate Til Samarkan, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, poetry
It's Bagdad's Merchan Princes, ye maun airt. on page 31

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
playin France at the Parc-des-Princes in Paris, on the telly. Efter
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
estaiblisht Yuletide Fair in Princes Street Gairdens wi its muckle
The hail lang lenth o Princes Street
2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
escos in musselburgh was like princes street today - nothins alter (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
End o Embra's Princes Street the monument tae the t on page 60
Regent Road at the east end o Princes Street), music gigs at the Vi on page 105

2 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
E'en princes came tae dee, on page 42

1 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Totally Princessy Princess, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central - Glasgow, weans
essy Princesses ... and Picky Princes. on page 15

1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
There's nae deficit ae princes fur a noble maiden fair. on page 72
cause lookin back oan princes past, on page 73

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
the General Register House on Princes Street, in Embra, designed wi on page 40

1 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
e hauf Scottish/hauf Hawaiian Princes Ka'iulani invitin Robert Loui on page 8

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 59 - Eleiven Quad Bike Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
I drave the langth o Princes Street on page 114

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
e fir Christmas! Saw this oan Princes Street the day!!!! Hope it gi(2014)

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