A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

buss Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.6 5.5 23.9 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences2811 16 0 1 0 0
Number of authors16 9 6 1

Occurrences of buss in Corpus

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Central

Philip, Andrew Lallans 70 - Fower Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
aur a body cuid find awthing: buss and glen and wey and toun, fi on page 55

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
rt, an sunk doun ahint a slae buss wi a souch o fear, when he sa on page 59

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
s are still left aneath a haw-buss on page 102

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
the English like buss, on page 24

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Philip, George Lallans 56 - Scotsoun Thereanent, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
tie - but still aff the same buss! Guid Scots Spoken Here (KKO7 on page 46

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Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Less Trauchle Nor A Bairn, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
she’d dug ahent a big berry buss in the gairden. ‘Sleep tich
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
Thai mebbies bene brak on the buss, shae jaloused. As A awreddie
s an pirks as shae rade throu buss an heges. Nane
e, hingin on the bouchtie o a buss whaur
3 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Wee Tailor in the Haunted Kirkyaird, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, weans
r a lump o stane or a brammle buss that clauchts yer cuits. We
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Thoumire, Elizabeth Three days in October, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
pairty tae the simmer wi ilka buss an tree nou deckit oot in the
1 matches

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 67 - Twa poems bi Douglas Kynoch, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Doric, poetry
E Fuchsia Buss on page 63

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Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
not a fuss as he coor't in a buss on page 15

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Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
an grapes be pickit fae a fun buss or figs fae thrissles? A gwee on page 15
sed again in e tale oe burnin buss fan he ca'ed on e God o Abrah on page 114

2 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
he Midgie. "haafgaits up thon buss ye'll see a Shoogie-horse-fle on page 42

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Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
'I cuttit a buss o jobby gorse and stappit it on page 51

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Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
at her frae the neuk o a whin buss, dichtin his muckle lugs wi b
the tap o a rukk. The brummil buss at the road eyn wis like barb
ubbery leaves o a rhododenron buss till it stoppit. Eneuch tae d
iron railin at his back an a buss o ivy happit the dyke aneth h
4 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
t. E gowden glimmer o e breem buss, e soon o splooterin seed pod
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Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
sy Vine wis a lang yalla rose buss that creepit an furled an bir
body likit Rosy Vine the rose buss. The hinney bees lued her sil
steid o bein a wee yalla rose buss, bidin at
fichertie fen Rosy Vine, be a buss again!”
ist tae be a plain yalla rose buss, climmirn up the waa o
5 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
plush black velvets an saaft buss for nests. on page 36

1 matches

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