A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

man’s Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 0.5 1.5 0 0 31 0
Number of occurrences51 1 0 0 3 0
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of man’s in Corpus

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Central

@billykayscot tweeted
pals. “Netty Rae’s gettin a man’s bosilla”. https://t.co/mD93l(2020) search twitter

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
‘nation’ and nae think, the man’s a either a fuckin idiot, or, (2020) twitter link

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ut move sooth due tae ma auld man’s employment. since that day, m(2020) search twitter
SusannahMacNeil True, ma auld man’s name is that! Even a feel ma (2020) search twitter
was taken oot due tae ma auld man’s employment, hence why, mair t (2020) twitter link