A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

coz Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14.2 19.7 8 0 0 10.9 4.4
Number of occurrences4437 5 0 0 1 1
Number of authors14 9 3 1 1

Occurrences of coz in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
'WIT? Yi think yir mad coz yir tall, wee man?' the eld a on page 14

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
coz ei dizzna gee a fuck on page 7
Coz when eh got oot thi classroom on page 56
knew it hid ti be I'o-re-al, coz yir on page 100
Naebuddie seems ti care coz on page 103
well yi kin leh in it, coz em no makin it on page 105

5 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Lallans 68 - Barlinnie Gradyooits, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
bit wair it says they git cot coz they run intae a lamp post th on page 41

13 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo, (Itchy Coo 2017 ISBN: 978-1785300592) Central - Glasgow, weans
"This burn here's the place, coz he pure loves watter, on page 8

1 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Totally Princessy Princess, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central - Glasgow, weans
d only open it a tiny wee bit coz the wind and the rain wur bat on page 9

1 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
Coz then it wiz upon me, on mi li
1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
he funny side. It’s strange coz sometimes I’d ask tae be ta
g Lugs – we called him Lugs coz o his big ears flapping aw ow
uppose that's how I lost him, coz I'd been tempted tae walk in
maybe – soft but made hard coz o pressure. It stretched its
ouldnae, I couldnae reach him coz I wis floating, I wis suspend
11 matches

Robertson, Gary A Wee Dundee Xmas Poem, (Lidl 2020) Central, poetry
Coz awa back in the shops in Sept
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
cabins in Skye for visitors...coz my twa dugs in a tent isna ga(2020) search twitter
e same time it appeals tae be coz S unnerved will waiting(2020) search twitter

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
e garage. Am pacin masel tho, coz it’s a lang weekend ??(2020) search twitter

Doric

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
ne bit ah niver had breakfast coz that’s fit it said in the e
1 matches

@daleser23 tweeted
ssAndrew7 @indykaila ats good coz we cana tolerate him any mare(2013) search twitter

@Franwella tweeted
@lisathemong in shame or jist coz ye canna hud it up!!? wuhuhuh(2012) search twitter
nae being nasty, it's nae no coz i dinna wint tae, it's no coz(2011) search twitter

Southern

@cammyrudkin tweeted
an ti kelsi races wi the boys coz a made a c**t o macel the las(2012) search twitter

Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
aw. Thon boney was called aff coz o tha viris!!! (2021) twitter link