A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bust Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3.1 1.5 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences96 1 1 0 0 1
Number of authors8 5 1 1 1

Occurrences of bust in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
mpin wae polis, aw lookin tae bust yi. They never wanted tae git on page 3

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
Nigel Farage grinnin fit tae bust wi The Donald is jist the lat on page 116

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ts clenchit an cursin fit tae bust. on page 109

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
e. At the museum, ah patted a bust's head like a dog. on page 42

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Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ualty ay Thatcher’s boom or bust Britain. Nae longer a viable
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Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
e kids’r laughin’ fit tae bust aboot it when some boy comes
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Doric

@beast_afc tweeted
ang22 I thought you had a big bust up on yer stagger. Fit happen(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
me life, as I kent hid, gaed bust. on page 31

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Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ir heftin a project tae pit a bust o' Andra Bonar-Law in Cowlrai on page 51

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