A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

floss Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.5 0.5 3 0 69.7 0 0
Number of occurrences151 2 0 12 0 0
Number of authors4 1 2 1

Occurrences of floss in Corpus

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Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
an scoffin ice cream an candy floss on page 28

1 matches

Doric

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
A'll use yer taes tae floss ma fangs, on page 15

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
A candy floss later an then on page 111

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
r bit a laand, foo a burra an floss whin da Tamsons cam i da 1860 on page 7
ls though, an just adores wir Floss - da feelin is mutual, ah'm on page 10
Floss, dir ting 3 dug, canna even g on page 47
ushed oot, "Oh, an can du gie Floss her brakkfast whin shü turns on page 48

12 matches

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