A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bosses Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3.6 0 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences97 0 1 0 1 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of bosses in Corpus

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Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Is it rammin yer heid up the bosses erse? on page 18

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
agin the avariciousness o the bosses nivver stoppit. An aince the on page 147

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
e nineteenth century the mill bosses in Dundee had figured oot it on page 50
he normal rin o things an the bosses were fair reluctant tae be le on page 59

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Grim-faced left thair bosses meetin, Wi thair p45! on page 47

1 matches

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
acher, bi yer parents, bi yer bosses, bi yer peers, bi the bams on
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
Here's a tweet tae show yer bosses @STVKathryn ?? https://t.co/G (2022) twitter link

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
ference o opinion wae his BBC bosses aboot the acceptable density
1 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
and thin with colleagues and bosses and went thru’ disciplinary (2021) twitter link