A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'poliss'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
polissOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.583
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 17.9 7 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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)
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of poliss in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Big Schuil, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
"The poliss got thare."
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Economic Theory, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
etter bide oot the road o the poliss, ye never ken.
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
baw match. We wes fliein. The poliss hard John’s
alienar, viz a Scotsman. The poliss als wiss
the gubernar o the jyle, the poliss, the clark o the court
€™nicht at bene liftit bi the poliss afoir thai arreistit John Gre
speired ma nem, than telt the poliss ti chak ma
5 matches

General Ulster

Bennett, Hazel Tha Near Cut, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
d scho haed ae brither in tha poliss. Hit wisnae at the wur narra
1 matches

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