A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sass'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sassOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.244
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sass in Corpus

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General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
ady's like a sachet of tomata sass: ye hiv tae wring it tae get on page 40

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ed onions and plenty of broon sass? Nae wunting yon oysters n mu(2018)

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
or it looks. Wi a suppie reid sass. https://t.co/R6LWrzCuj2(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
e folk who cannae stomach yer sass!(2020)