A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'poss'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
possOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.651
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 6.7 5 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 poss in Corpus

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General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
eilidh tomorrow! Cannae wait! Poss guid networking opportunity a(2015)
@RealChrisPowell Is it poss tae join in fae here in UK...(2015)
both 2016..unless it's still poss for me tae get ticket fir yir(2015)
mChrisRamsey Enjoy as long as poss because when yir wee yin is b(2015)
hur can we watch...red button poss? xxx(2015)