Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'puil'

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Use in varieties of Scots

puil	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	11.7	38	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	55.6	17	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	10.9	1	1
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.5	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	31.3	5	3
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire	144.2	11	1
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	2
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 puil in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
back o the schule, the glaury puil was a sottar o kirned dubs, f
ush. East o the schule an the puil , the wids o Pitrasherty raise
y, skirtin the back o Rogie's puil far the littlins war still du
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
raucht tae the polar bear’s puil . Kevin’s flooers grew richt
tor flappit doon tae the mill puil , an makkin eese o the watter
bedd at the boddom o the puil in the loch aside the fir.. a
Angus an Waggitie ay caad the puil aside their haime The Kelpie�
de their haime The Kelpie’s Puil . A fisherman aften
13 matches

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
s socks. It collekit in a wee puil on the radio wifie”s carpet
1 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
freeth whan it hit the puil ablow an wheecht back as a sh
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
Doon in Wasty's puil
1 matches

Edinburgh

Purves, Jamie Lallans 102 - Aince, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
Ilka puil hid a braw beaver houss, a lo on page 13

1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
he heyfield, the orchart, the puil , the shaw. It wis like they h
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
werena ower lood. There wis a puil in the middle o the coortyair
is hingin ower the rail o the puil in the central coortyaird o t
en as it tummlet doon fae the puil unner the clint an fund hauf
3 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
The Puil O Tears on page 15
ears, till there wis a muckle puil aa rounaboot her, near on fow on page 16
shuin fand oot she wis in the puil o tears that she'd gret when on page 20
dae ye ken the wey oot o this puil? I'm secunnert o swimmin abou on page 21
Mous wis scutterin awa up the puil like the clappers, makin muck on page 22
Also on pages 23, 32, 44
11 matches

General Central

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
n affcome o drawin on a wider puil o writers nor the wee smaw cu
1 matches

Sneddon, Alison Whit dae ye want “British vailues” tae mean?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
in in a significantly lairger puil o siller, that is spent mair
1 matches