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The word 'poaket'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
poaketOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6156
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 219.7 7 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of poaket in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
rns oot. Wis still in ma jean poaket. It tells me ah've goat a new on page 82

1 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
A pult an auld hankie oot ma poaket An’ noisily commenced tae s
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
a watch oot ae its watstcoat-poaket, an looked at it, an then hur on page 7
he'd taken his watch oot his poaket an wis giein it a funny look, on page 68
she'd kept a bit ae it in her poaket) till she wis aboot a fit hig on page 75

3 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
the rabbit reacht intae haes poaket an brocht oot a waatch, skell on page 7
pair shae pit hir haun in hir poaket an pullt oot a box o comfits on page 28
as tuk haes waatch oot o haes poaket, an wus lukin at it uneasily, on page 69
hroom (shae kept a bit in hir poaket) tae shae wus aboot a fit hig on page 76
Wus kinely permitiet tae poaket the spon: on page 105

7 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
oot a harmonica frae his tap poaket, knelt doon bae the hairth an on page 7
the harmonica frae his breest poaket. "Young Hughie haes yin the s on page 12

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
are o hïm an ïf ye ir oot o poaket, A'll mak ït up tae ye whan on page 88

1 matches

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