A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'poly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
polyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7126
ORK - Orkney 59.6 6 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of poly in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
er Mars, but here i'the ramse poly on page 4
the empty poly chairs an taebles, on page 13
intae a bruckit domm, aa the poly taen fae the reuf, an mosst o on page 107
her saet's shinan aald black poly, ten white lines doon aither on page 121
aaltz roon a see-trou pair in poly, a treesome in cotton gang tr on page 139
Also on pages 159
6 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie An onkerry for a kerry oot, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
We couldna believe da poly bags foo o maet left on da hi
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
pure went an hung hersel wi a poly bag. Laura startet giein evru on page 153

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
oom windae, swinging his blue poly bag full ae goodies. Fuckin w on page 1

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
loft, haudin a kerry oot in a poly bag. Fuckin mad wae it, they
pittin the lid back intae the poly bag. ‘We’ll go six points
2 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
Did they pit a poly bag on that bairn's heid at t(2020)