A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

policeman Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0 1.5 0 5.8 20.7 0
Number of occurrences40 1 0 1 2 0
Number of authors4 1 1 2

Occurrences of policeman in Corpus

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Doric

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
e’d nivver mocked the young policeman. The one ee’d cat wiz there
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
you identify these sheep?' da policeman aksed. "The grazings clerk sa on page 73

1 matches

Southern

The Westender Loupin Salmon, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
, only tae feel the grip o' a policeman's hand on his collar.
1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
t folk knew about early 20thC Policeman Poet from Ayrshire Matthew An(2020) search twitter

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