A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'punishments'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
punishmentsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.554
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
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 punishments in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ked it oot a’ready that the punishments we meted oot tended tae fit t
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
and giein oot these pure braw punishments, and the bonnie thing wis tha on page 43

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Wis suin stampt oot wi punishments obscene. on page 41
et's ettle tae be fair in oor punishments. This priggin fir a fair sens on page 116

2 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
hat there will be substantial punishments for both sets of boys. She wi on page 55

1 matches

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