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The word 'punt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
puntOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.798
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 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 punt in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
bird! We birders take mony a punt, thoo deserved yin een tae pa (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
shoppie. I'm takkin a bit o a punt on iss een. Fingers cross it (2020)
s like we're gaan till hiv ti punt Jess, Wee Jock, Frunkie, Oliv(2020)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
s. By the way, Johnny liked a punt on the horses tae and wid usu
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ost makes the risk ae dyin, a punt worth takin.
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
Disco an Parker gie Paco a punt up an oan tae the caravan roo on page 31

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Nae mair shall he punt on page 145

1 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - The Pynes o Luve, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Maladetta sie l'or' e 'l punt' e 'l giorno... on page 44

1 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
@KMcAlindon Anything tae punt a Tory! (2022) twitter link

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