A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

refuses Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.5 3.2 16 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences176 10 1 0 0 0
Number of authors9 5 3 1

Occurrences of refuses in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
by holy water fae Lourdes and refuses, tae tub anyhin else oan hur on page 45

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
man she likes; albeit, gif he refuses to tak hir till be his wyf, h
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
re. But, tae ma annoyance, he refuses tae take his eyes oaff the ro
1 matches

@RickHJohnston tweeted
Blackford tells the truth and refuses to be cowed. Hoyle isnae up t (2022) twitter link

@Chazzbat tweeted
hink. A controllin mither wha refuses tae learn tae sign. It's clea(2020) search twitter
If she refuses tae answer the questions, Ah (2020) search twitter

Doric

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
lence, Seelence patient 19541 refuses to spik.
lence, Seelence patient 19541 refuses to spik.
lence, Seelence patient 19541 refuses to spik.
lence, Seelence patient 19541 refuses to spik.
lence, Seelence patient 19541 refuses to spik.
7 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
tae jail onyone in England fa refuses tae tak #Scottish bank poun n(2019) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
week this time last year and refuses tae give up on him now Boyle (2022) twitter link
Peggers He is the fuckin man. Refuses tae go doon the cabaret route (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
her haivers sheu kens gowd an refuses tae quyt. Yaas, thir aye a we on page 142

1 matches

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