A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'policeman'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
policemanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 policeman in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
you identify these sheep?' da policeman aksed. "The grazings clerk sa on page 73

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
e’d nivver mocked the young policeman. The one ee’d cat wiz there
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
her wha wis a young Meilitary Policeman wha trained dugs. He wis fae on page 23

1 matches

South East (Borders)

The Westender Loupin Salmon, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
, only tae feel the grip o' a policeman's hand on his collar.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
t folk knew about early 20thC Policeman Poet from Ayrshire Matthew An(2020)