A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

busses Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 7.2 6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1814 4 0 0 0 0
Number of authors10 8 3

Occurrences of busses in Corpus

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Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
is it no, that sheep eat wee busses?' on page 21
prince that baobabs arena wee busses, by tee as muckle as kirks; a on page 22
He didna tak tent o three wee busses. on page 24
'Gin a sheep eats sma busses, dis it eat flooers forby?' on page 27

5 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
he pound war a taigle o sauch busses an birks wi muckle sways o br on page 59

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
tae mak ruif-trees, an sauch busses an hazel wands tae weave an b on page 50
he wis hidden by clump o whin busses forty yairds frae the hous .. on page 59

2 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
staunin in the lae o the hie busses, hiddled frae the lamplicht? on page 16

1 matches

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
Rash busses were drookit tae their ritts.
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
an prohibitive traivel costs. Busses tae Embra teuk ower twa oors,
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
doun tae vegetables an fruit busses. Tae us bairns it wis lik a s
gs ar thirlt tae ma mind: the busses whittelt intae the shape of p
2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
is amang the rocks an scroggy busses. Bill led her awa fae Hsien,
1 matches

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 77 - Whaur Gadie Rins, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
ir the cottage wi the grossit busses. The gamie an his faimily wer on page 56

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 78 - Scots Teegars, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric, prose
r yonder!" A said, pyntin tae busses growein in the gairden. on page 80

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
a at the heather an blaeberry busses.
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
jobby, wi whin busses an orrals o aa kinds, wytin f
1 matches

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