A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'publick'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
publickOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.6223
ORK - Orkney
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
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee 201.8 19 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 publick in Corpus

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West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
'Good Scots' in educatioun an publick life. The war sum on page 8

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
frae 1939 an 1943, (nou i the publick domain as pert o a MS. clekki
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
lit on the pernicious English publick schuil system, but apein, for on page 18
ye aboot the profitisation o publick finance. PFI = Profit First I on page 37
ae the usual middle. class an publick schuil lot that hid aye been on page 48
grip on aw levels o Scottish publick affairs on behauf o William P on page 58
is been deemit unsuitable fer publick consumption bi the Gatekeeper on page 59
Also on pages 60, 74, 80, 88, 89, 94, 109, 121, 122, 154
19 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
te in its ain gruns, bit near publick transport. She gaed tae sleep
1 matches

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