A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'punches'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
punchesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.553
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 25.6 5 3
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 punches in Corpus

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Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
in Mo's ear. Mo nods an Disco punches him square in his belly. The on page 26

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
i kin only git wae a good few punches. Addison n Broonie didnae huv on page 20
ck. 'They're aw at me throwin punches n A'm gittin hit wae a fence on page 42

2 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
in piranhas ur flingin in sly punches an kicks though as ah scuffle
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
dial, rainin doon a volley ay punches oantae the pulpy mess that us
1 matches

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