A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

cousin's Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.6 4.5 6 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences159 4 0 2 0 0
Number of authors9 5 2 2

Occurrences of cousin's 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

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
pulled an elder burd, ma big cousin's pal. Paula Cook, hur name is. on page 6

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"His cousin's a private investigator and ah on page 107
fact he's been workin at his cousin's scrappies fur the past six mo on page 123

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
cCoy wis greetin the day. His cousin's girlfriend took an ecstasy up on page 125
Ah didnae really know Wully's cousin's girlfriend. She wis ip fourth on page 126
a right riot, he said, Ma big cousin's gettin us a crate a Smirnoff on page 169

3 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
As in yer granda's cousin's case, lost at sea on page 15
Ye felt yer cousin's conneree on the nicht on page 97

2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
A'v juist been askin efter ma cousin's wee bairn that's been at the
1 matches

Doric

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
wa an Google it. Folk like ma cousin's grandfolk came fae Jamaica an on page 57

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
fusky that gart Aunty Nell's cousin's man tae sheet fowk. I wis hop on page 51

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
purple merks at the tap o her cousin's breist been, bruises that lui
met her, steppin oot frae her cousin's door in the toon tae buy milk
2 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
appened; he kent aa aboot his cousin's dooble life.
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
It's my peerie cousin's wedding day :-)(2013) search twitter

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