A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

joss Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 1 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences32 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of joss in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
ut the purple candle awa. Lit joss sticks. Picked oot three stan on page 1

1 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
chantin an the smell o’ the joss sticks which pit the flingin
1 matches

Southern

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
lik butterflies the joss-paper auss flies by,
1 matches

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