A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'postbox'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
postboxOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.932
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
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of postbox in Corpus

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South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
Not long arrived through our postbox from @msjlindsay Looking forw(2020)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
yne fae forenent Ballygellick postbox http://t.co/pYlqzqr3JA (2015) twitter link
clamation doonby Ballygellick postbox, 1916. https://t.co/b1Hz81ssE (2016) twitter link