Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sucks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

sucks	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.5	8	7
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	11.9	1	1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	10.9	2	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	2
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sucks in Corpus

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Shetland

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

Mid Northern A

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

Aberdeen

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

(South) East Central

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

Glasgow

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

General 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

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