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The word 'polar'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
polarOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22410
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 58.1 10 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 63.7 6 1
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of polar in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
out Guid God! Thoo may lipn a polar bear or twa afore Lang (2021) twitter link

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
o it; an polar questions (caaed yis/no quest on page 89
7.4.1 Polar questions in Shaetlan on page 90

9 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
a whaft o walrus and a hint o polar bear #Shetland(2013)

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
win that cam straacht aff the Polar icecap an wi little land atwe
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
She marched straucht tae the polar bear’s puil. Kevin’s floo
rew richt aside it. Percy the polar bear wis streekit oot on a sl
2 matches

Aberdeen

Leslie, Dawn Press and Journal 2023-12-02 - Doric Corner, (no publisher recorded 2023) Doric, newspaper
Ah'm nae quite 'aa aboard the Polar Express' jist yet, Ah've got
1 matches

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
nae work like others. I see a polar bear laying on its back. What(2020)

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Davie an the Polar Bear on page 36
nest on the ship an spottit a polar bear no far aff. It wis weel on page 37
back an tell them ye killt a polar bear' on page 38

6 matches

General Central

@ionafyfe tweeted
e Scots Language Awards. In a polar bear wansie. #scots @handsupf(2020)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
the Ulster Scots yarn wi the Polar Bear cratur mysel. He was a q (2016) twitter link