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Use in varieties of Scots

postie Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.7 4.6 24.1 29.8 0 0 0
Number of occurrences289 16 3 0 0 0
Number of authors20 8 10 2

Occurrences of postie in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
The postie staunds stell on page 16

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Ma postie came boondin along the road t on page 115

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
mak thi postie redundant, deliver yir ane on page 36

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
The postie brings the mithers send on page 121

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Postie Kemp, Contemplatin Retirement
1 matches

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
an tenterhooks waitin fur the postie. Billy, ye stupid auld duffer
The doorbell rings. The postie hauns me a package wi an Amer
2 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
on Earth. Even Hermes – the postie o Moont Olympus, that cairrie
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Jist received this fae the postie man. https://t.co/aB5Y6BUsIN(2020) search twitter

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
"Ah hid it fae the postie this mornin. An Ted's taen it on page 34

1 matches

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
e wifie there wis nae help. A postie got the jist o fit we were ai on page 28
ppen. The second address that postie toc us tae wis the richt een. on page 29

2 matches

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Hamish - at the postie's knock Fess ben the mail - on page 15

3 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
s but not inebriates' fan the postie cam, an Airchie wint oot ti h on page 8

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ster. Ye ken, Walter Wid, the postie? Weel, he met an oriental qui on page 50

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Listen tae i'postie comin up i'path on page 148

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
"Och at's fine the postie is fine an early the day" sai
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
at ye could jist aboot park a postie’s van in.
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
i his bottles jinglin, an the postie wi his reid van hid tootit ch
on be?” she winnert. “The postie’s bin gaen fur oors, an the
the door. It wis Spurgie the Postie wi an invite tae Lowpity frae
3 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
O ?? memories fan ma da wis a postie in the early ‘70s ?? (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
@GerryinAberdeen Mine fin oor postie lobbed the parcel in the wind(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The postie's got his bags mixed up - hi on page 9
The postie's van cam stooran doon and se on page 13

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. Crackan the troughs, (Brisk Northerly 2021) Orkney, blog
Me faither-in-law minds the postie walkan right across the ice o
1 matches

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