A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

poly Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 2.5 0 59.6 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences125 0 6 1 0 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of poly in Corpus

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Central

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

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

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

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

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

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