Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tons	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.1	3.1	1.5	0	0	31	0
Number of occurrences	10	6	1	0	0	3	0
Number of authors	7	5	1			1

Occurrences of tons 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

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
e a plook. Hunners ae hooses, tons ae folk. Bit nothin tae dae w on page 1

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
orbye. Gin ye tried tae shift tons o stuff ilk day by haun = war on page 55
aryin atween twalve an twenty tons, an cuid tak a guid crowd o h on page 91

2 matches

Gilmour, Rosie Ma Schuil, (Scots Hoose 2014) Central, weans
cannae wait, a jist miss them tons
1 matches

Curt_Kenobi Mates, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
Aye, ehs a unique cunt. Kens tons ay shite aboot Sean Connery -
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
ornaments, and then me and ma tons a books. And it looked damn g (2022) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Japanee temple –sax million tons o granite ower the centuries,
1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
nae toys tae play wi, an och, tons o lessons tae learn! Nut, Ah' on page 19
"Eet maitters tons tae mei," said Ahlice richt o on page 52
t," said th King, "that saves tons o trouble, ee ken, as oo dinn on page 120

3 matches