A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mens Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1.5 3 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences63 2 0 0 1 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of mens in Corpus

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Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
Lichts flickerit oan the wee mens' lang nebs, shiftie een an ug on page 14

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
They'd gae sneakin roond mens doors late at night on page 80

1 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
eh gasoline floatin er the ‘mens’ heeds, it wiz worse than l
1 matches

Doric

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
Kid Elastic Boots 7/6 - 38p Mens Elastic Sided Boots 9/6 - 48 on page 29

1 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
big bonus boost. In previous mens national teams, I wid gee som(2020) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
aboot but mainly in the auld mens' pubs and shops.(2020) search twitter