A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'posture'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
postureOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.583
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 31.4 5 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of posture in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
an aa, laek da posture verbs att sätta/ställa/läg on page 76
at's reflexive an aa, laek da posture verbs on page 95

2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
's an air ae arragance in his posture. Likesae, he seems tae comin on page 153

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
blin a bit in the unfameeliar posture. Noo Ah’ll shaw ye, she tho
richt up tae Falad. His hale posture wis conciliatory - na, thoch
e returnt an faced Iqbal. Her posture wis defiant, bit she spake qu
She tane up the dance posture for Ganesh, the elephant god,
e wis tension comin intae her posture noo.
5 matches

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