A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'postin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
postinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.82217
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of postin in Corpus

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Orkney

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2017) Orkney
t iny o the above stop ye fae postin freely though! No wantin tae

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
en da only eens you see on fb postin aboot exam results is da prou (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 67 - Leddy Stair’s Closse, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Gaed postin doun tae Cannigait, on page 141

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Ah jist hope Ah git a postin
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
Ammirall shae wes gied a sauf postin whaur the wes a fouth o ying on page 2

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
The gran thing aboot this new postin wis the lang holidays atween
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
postin link upon link o cheesy hits on page 39
fur postin sic queries in the first plac on page 40

2 matches

Piondargas, Criostoir , (no publisher recorded 2015) Central, prose
Juist fae postin up on some o the ither thread
1 matches

Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna Tae A Selfie, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2014) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
™ a hunner fur Facebook an’ postin’ when pished).
1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
an' the wumimin in front wus postin' twenty cards tae New Zealand on page

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
@chrisodonnell Thank you for postin full clip! Warm huggggggssss (2014)
u fir yir openness, honesty & postin on youtube esp as #Periscope (2015)
@JVSquadcast Thanks fir postin. Just aboot tae hae a fish su(2017)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
aw. Dae a git ony siller fir postin tae this threid Billy??) (2022) twitter link

@Chazzbat tweeted
Syne folk ur postin photies o thur denner, here's(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
tae mak ye fitter? Yer by wi postin mince oan Twitter? on page 77

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
kkin Ah've aye thocht, ta fir postin. Think it garred me a wee sin (2020) twitter link
@molach95 Ta fir postin thir, Alex, gey braw tae lug (2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Untitled, (twitter 2021) Ulster - Larne, poetry
g poetry and affrontin maself postin it on the socials. Anyhoo, Ki
1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An thair's some gaunch postin thair. on page 13
Sae noo A'm aa signed up an postin, on page 36

2 matches

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