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The word 'poster'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
posterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.32113
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 2
WCE - West Central 22.2 5 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 56.9 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of poster in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
er bid an oot it cam A muckle poster catcht my ee "Buy some dung - on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Ah read the poster es Muggie shoodered the swing on page 59

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
o her kist. Ane wis a theatre poster, showin the actress on stage,
1 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
are the poster quines on page 25

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
r Eck seen a bargain day on a poster. On this day you cood
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
guy seems tae be actin as the poster boay as tae why ah cannae sha on page 52
t me. "Did yae no notice that poster at the entrance? You kin be a on page 111

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
[NOTE: image here of poster advertising Sangschaw in orig
[NOTE: image here of a poster advertising Johnnie Jouk the
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ey ee-catchin. This particlar poster haed a big picter o Oor Wulli
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
by Starmix magazine, Thir's a poster ae him right in the centre pa on page 76
on on it. She spottet the new poster ae Murray right away an she g on page 77
da brung me home a four foot poster ae Murray Hart that he got wi on page 119
s an replaced them wi wan big poster ae the dogs fae A Hunner an W on page 169

5 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
the puir poster no ainly feels on page 40

1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
IAmChrisRamsey It's a smaller poster tae! Mair chance o gettin it (2015)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
huv tae dig a tunnel ahint a poster, Shawshank style ;-). ASLS on(2016)

@LairnScots tweeted
er lairners tae mak a proverb poster. https://t.co/vQEeLvkYCe (2017) twitter link

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
Linfield! I heard he ripped a poster of Lyndsey McKeon aff his bed(2016)
u gotta a good price for thon poster?(2020)