A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sucks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 2.6 3 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences85 2 0 1 0 0
Number of authors7 4 2 1

Occurrences of sucks in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
hands her tea) Who done it? (Sucks up her tea with enjoyment)
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
like walkin oan quicksaun, it sucks ye in, slowly, incrementally,
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
cken slick wae mornin dew. It sucks an slurps at ma admittedly en
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
@Thuckster__ That sucks, Thuckster. *hugs* Guid on ye(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
o to eu membership guys - it sucks (2021) twitter link

Doric

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
d fuel. The grun is dubby and sucks at oor boots as we trudge thr
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
leaner aat goes in yer lug an sucks up wax. Shid ah buy een? It’(2020) search twitter

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
da backs o my hands ???? #PLE sucks!! #SunAllergy #ImTurningVampi (2018) twitter link