A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'poust'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
poustOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1104
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 15.3 6 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of poust in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
mak hiz wey forrit i poust an profit. Whan hiz onkils wu
itherwyss wes ayont ma poust, fur ye maun mynd at A juist
intra an perlament tint thair poust, the beisnessis wes suin dyvo
poust he is waantin. D’ye hae oni
outhfu or twa Tammas fand the poust ti be hysted ontil the sorrit
6 matches

General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
f the waa an duntit me wi the poust o
1 matches

General Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
l, pairtie, sillerie, mellin, poust an cultùral richts o weans. on page 16

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
ither palls wi tha poust o tha bouk or wi gettin aboot
owre tha heid o a pall wi yer poust or an impediment ’at haes h
2 matches

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