A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'poking'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pokingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.554
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of poking in Corpus

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General Northern

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
e it which held the drill and poking devices on it ,and next tae t
went wi a lang metallic hook poking and scrappin at ma teeth , he
2 matches

West Central

@annieones tweeted
hty people ??.... so dae stop poking yer nose intae oor business! (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
e door an there's the bouncer poking her nose in. Ah better keep m on page 5

1 matches

General Central

@gordimhor1 tweeted
ss this tonight, I'll be busy poking ma een wi a spoon(2018)