A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bosy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0 3 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences40 2 1 1 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of bosy in Corpus

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Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Still ma bosy's richt saft for craiturs tha on page 15

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I dinna need tae bosy or hud ye ticht on page 82

1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Lallans 67 - Fower Poems efter Rilke, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Orkney, poetry
land, wightlessly, apin thee bosy on page 58

1 matches

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
@johnneh Bosy dat seal (2020) twitter link