Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'purchase'

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Use in varieties of Scots

purchase	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.1	17	15
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	31.5	3	3
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	4.9	2	2
WCE - West Central	4.4	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	10.2	2	2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	6.6	5	3
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 purchase in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
�10 bonus fin ye make yer 1st purchase. See https://t.co/aaoUyajYlK (2019)

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
' implements £170,000. First purchase o' manure £13/10 per ton, se on page 29

1 matches

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
up in a baa an enjey yer new purchase wi a het drink if yer needin on page 12

1 matches

Lawrie, Alistair Northwords Now 45 - The Win, (Northwords Now 2024) Doric - Peterhead, prose
t tae haud eneuch tae gie him purchase back up the waa an thocht he
1 matches

General Northern

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
inform you that a Compulsory Purchase Order has been issued....' 'F on page 8

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
a pair bit wid accept single purchase, stale smell on baith & well (2019)

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
ibute one shilling toward the purchase of a gift, to be presented to
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
r brissills - a herd u still purchase it doon at east fortune merca (2020) twitter link

West Central

Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
ay and Hogmanay (aye, a guilt purchase ), an then, suddent, there’s
1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
s ears. ‘It’s no a simple purchase ah’m hinking. We’ve both
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
chunky trainer tries tae find purchase on the brick wall, behind the on page 15

1 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
reet that gie the cameras nae purchase . The fishers hae nae greens n
1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
industrial districts by hire-purchase firms and smaa shopkeepers as
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
Im torn an dinae ken whit tae purchase you playing Glasgow in April (2014)
Hill_Official I'vé tried tae purchase this many times this last wee(2015)
sted. How much ow where can I purchase. Any East Lothian rates or is(2016)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Linlithgow. Delighted wae ma purchase. Hooever, I remain fair scunn(2020)