Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mous	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	17.3	27.9	1.5	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	56	55	1	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	8	7	1

Occurrences of mous 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

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
h a bat, an that's gey like a mous, ye ken. But dae cats eat bat on page 10
shuin saw that it wis juist a mous that had slippt in like herse on page 21
"We, indeed!" cried the Mous, wha wis trimmlin richt doun on page 22
dinnae like thaim!" When the Mous heard this, it turnt roun an on page 23
At the hinner-en, the Mous, wha seemed tae be a high-hei on page 24
Also on pages 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 44
46 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
an wee Mirren, they had less mous tae feed than thaim wi ten we on page 62

1 matches

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
wird no eith tae finn in mony mous the day, thon's nae ill-daein on page ix

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
counterpynts oor tune an dumb mous shout on page 29

1 matches

Philip, George Lallans 56 - Scotsoun Thereanent, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
beuks - but stracht frae the mous o thir twa speikers - yin fr on page 46

1 matches

Durie, Nick A Scots Letter, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Glasgow, prose
ur meidie haes gang roon thar mous wie Inglish dishclouts an wur
1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
dacency had steekit fowks’ mous.
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
it wis Latin an Greek fae oor mous wad haes us ferlie at the fac
1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
uir wes steirin, na, no a wee mous.
1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
bein read a poem aboot a wee mous, an greitin when a plou cut t
1 matches

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
a be hard owre the squeak o a mous, sae that made little differ. on page 25

1 matches