Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'purvey'

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Use in varieties of Scots

purvey	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6.5	21	5
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	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	54.6	12	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	8	6	1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	27.8	2	2
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 purvey 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.

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
ff ti thi busker Stephen John Purvey Esq. An meh rite-in partners on page i

1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
l pit in an appearance at the purvey though, that shid be enough. on page 15
mirror. Ah snap it shut. 'The Purvey?' Robert asks, 'Is that a pub on page 16
urr. Were goin tae ma stepdas purvey. on page 17
've brought this laddie tae a purvey in East Kilbride and still he on page 23
are' an insensitive term at a purvey? on page 26
Also on pages 28
12 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
maist mooth-watterin feast, a purvey o sappie creeshie chooks...' on page 48
it has tae be a totally braw purvey. And tell her the rest o us w on page 57
'It'll mak the purvey intae a ceilidh,' said Mr Tod on page 64
The Muckle Purvey on page 72

6 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ddin as ye's blethered at the purvey, pickin at the pieces and the on page 80

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
purvey nor a wake wi money ye've no on page 24

1 matches