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The word 'poseetions'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
poseetionsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3104
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 2
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 poseetions in Corpus

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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
the rich an pouerfu in their poseetions o preevelige. on page 33
ppyntin Scots fowk tae siccan poseetions is the richt thing tae dae? on page 74

2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
lly gotten intae thair chosen poseetions afore they were discovert. Th
e they were in guid defensive poseetions. They made the inemy spen tha
2 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ad tae fowk's takin up defaut poseetions. An thae defaut poseetions ma on page 33
trapped intil assumin defaut poseetions aboot the predominance o spec on page 34
auld ideologies, auld defaut poseetions an systems o pooer that, in 1 on page 35

5 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
ed it, an the names, treds or poseetions 0 aw the tenants an whit thay on page 40

1 matches

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