A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

arsed Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.9 8.2 6 0 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences2216 4 0 0 2 0
Number of authors11 8 2 1

Occurrences of arsed in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
torytellin begin. A cannae be arsed listenin tae it the night. Fi on page 31

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
at. Work. 'Sides, I cannae be arsed.' on page 1

2 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Black Grouse rat-arsed on page 71

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
An A cannae be arsed bein arsed wae ma life. on page 12
They cannae be arsed wae bairns awready there, on page 15

3 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The smart-arsed big baw-heid, he'll get his c on page 117

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
er ay the group offers a hauf arsed smile an ushers the rest ay t
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
it is Alec, cannae be bloody arsed hauf the time these days, jus
n example ay how ah cannae be arsed, eh? Not five minutes ago, oo
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Pearcey flings a hauf arsed attempt at a punch an the sma
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
an. Tae replace us wi’ bare-arsed Campbells, fir the “pacific
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
oan the street, they’re no arsed aboot percentages ay purity.
1 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
cannae be arsed(2013) search twitter
a cannae be arsed(2014) search twitter

Doric

@daleser23 tweeted
@RossAndrew7 cana even be arsed arguing. Just watch sky sport(2013) search twitter
Il dee it later fan i can be arsed(2013) search twitter
@RossAndrew7 cana be arsed. Awa tae ma bed(2013) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Asda fer oor tea bit canna be arsed am gan up their the day. She (2016) search twitter

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
amily live there. a cannae be arsed to visit em, sadly. https://t(2020) search twitter
re just lazybones!! Cannae be arsed tae ride, nae matter whit! ??(2020) search twitter