A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

buts Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.6 0.5 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences21 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of buts in Corpus

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Central

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
he doctor says, ‘Nae ifs or buts:
1 matches

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
@krishgm Week 2 fur de maybe buts its week 3 fur wis. At least (2020) twitter link