A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mans Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.3 8.9 0 19.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences2118 0 2 1 0 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of mans in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
An yir deep in Hellie Mans rigs on page 70

1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
auld bodies packing in, young mans game. Aye we both had a fab t(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ctually voted macaskill in - mans a muppet - a rest ma case lo (2021) twitter link
wee willie rennies the man - mans ma heero lol (2020) twitter link
message m8 lol - so the big mans a fone warrior - thats worse (2021) twitter link
au10 never doubted it m8 - a mans a man for awe that - fir awe (2021) twitter link
@FootyRustling @CoreyHook1 mans a dick - says it awe ffs lol (2021) twitter link
and 11 other occurrences.

Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
xt thing wae saw wis a scabby mans heed on page 90

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
d/Skad as in scalped. Scalped Mans Heid seems to be the gory ety (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
e fae da Ness, caa dem scabby mans heid. Likkly misheard or pref(2020) search twitter