A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ass Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8 2 30 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences264 20 2 0 0 0
Number of authors8 3 4 1

Occurrences of ass 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

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
h pointed beard riding an old ass and drinking from a horn
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ave aww seen you sweating yer ass off after working oot and cyc(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
get oot there n kick sum ass - its the weekend - archerf (2020) twitter link
- lets get oot there n kick ass (2020) twitter link

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
f, a thoosen questions, a wis ass keen. Bit mair offin thin one on page 1
en layt, thi tyde wid rein en ass faist eit offin thi bogie wid on page 7
ill looken aift struck eis we ass muckle foarse hee's boaty sli on page 17
ase abody a ken at, Bit a wis ass chuffed an prood o wer boatie on page 18
i codlin's kept cummen, A wis ass happy eit brocht teer's tae m on page 19
Also on pages 20, 26, 34, 41, 48, 49, 56, 61
16 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ed Mary fa sat at Jesus' feet ass eard aa att he said. Noo Mart on page 99
t God says till him, 'Ye feel ass, iss verra nicht yer life wil on page 102

2 matches

Ireland, Mark Wi A Facey Like Yours, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
ret a han. She’s niver been ass pleast ti see ‘im in ‘er
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
bunnet! Do one ya pain in the ass Covid blooming 19! ???? https(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Hollinrake, Fran Flett Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
day he sits afore the hairth, ass gets in his hair and claes;
and gied a rift, and threw up ass and guffan reek
2 matches

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