A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tossers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.3 2.7 3.2 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences75 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 2 2

Occurrences of tossers in Corpus

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Central

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
And thare's squatters and tossers and dossers and aw on page 153

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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
me back in if a withdraw the tossers/dipstick remarks? am askin co (2021) twitter link
d oan a couple o pints - the tossers of the snobby society psml (2020) twitter link
phy pie n bovrils fir awe the tossers that ken nowt aboot fitba - (2021) twitter link
gend - dunno hoo the other 2 tossers r tho lol (2021) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ither – bit neither wad the tossers, dossers an minkers she tryst
1 matches

@daleser23 tweeted
deaf than listen to either. #tossers(2013) search twitter

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