A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

postman Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 0.5 0 9.9 11.6 0 9.7
Number of occurrences61 0 1 2 0 2
Number of authors5 1 1 1 2

Occurrences of postman in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
It's Valentine's Day, an the postman has been, an ah got nothin as on page 109

1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
isperer. Occasional exorcist. Postman'. on page 7

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ll maybe see mair yet, fur da postman said he wis seen an applicati on page 5
l a run a sea on da beach. Da postman met Maggie as shü cam fae da on page 35

2 matches

Ulster

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
'Nixt tae the postman', keechlin, on page 2

1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
sin was pit doon by a crabbit Postman, wha blarged him oot the road (2016) twitter link

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