Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

buckets	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	7.7	7.1	10.5	19.9	0	10.3	4.4
Number of occurrences	25	14	7	2	0	1	1
Number of authors	18	10	4	2		1	1

Occurrences of buckets in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
oan aw the same, pure greetin buckets, till thir wis a big pool ae on page 17

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Central, prose
leukit ahint the shop rubbage buckets, roond the biggin waa's an ei on page 22

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
yin giant coo will gie fifty buckets o milk a day" skirled Mr Kran on page 74

1 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
o buckets and spades and the wabbit tra on page 11

1 matches

Robertson, James Melt (Yin), (Kettillonia 2001) Central, poetry
Jaws muckle buckets fou o icy rains
1 matches

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
d, anxiously. She wis sweatin buckets.
1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
Andy. We used tae sit on wur buckets like Oor Wullie an’ swap Ch
ted tae be hum. So we got wur buckets; in ma case an upturned waste
2 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
bit thocht the pigs sent for buckets and milkit the kye weel eneuc
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ry sacks o fuel briquettes an buckets o watter, an wis gettin a fir
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@19Mcculley @rosebrook22 Aye. Buckets. Bucket day. Weegies ??(2020) search twitter
anTelfer744 ??. I do take the buckets oot ??(2020) search twitter
t. Christ shes even put the buckets oot if Ive had a hard day. (2020) search twitter
ook22 Bit like me putting the buckets oot ??(2020) search twitter

Doric

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
in white suits an wellies, wi buckets fu o wet plaster that wid tak
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
a door ont. It could hud sax buckets and eence fulled aa Jessie hi
b, she soon hid the first sax buckets fulled and intae the dumb wai
er she wiz back fullin up the buckets again. This time fin she feen
r. Soon she’d the first sax buckets fulled. Nae lookin tae the le
4 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
hree wikks an smaer scaffie buckets voted bi Aberdeenshire Coonci(2019) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
byle o tatties. Pluntit in o buckets. Fair chuffed wi masel. https(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The Breck - buckets at the door, sittan in the su on page 13

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Buckets fillan and wheel turnan on page 36

1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
ent oan jist th same, greetin buckets o tears, until there was a mu on page 16

1 matches

Ulster

Gillen, Charles Whun A’ The Kye Had Names, (Ullans Press 2005) Ulster, poetry
I lake’t the blue rimm’t buckets an’ the strainers mair, I t
1 matches