A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

trousers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3 4.5 0 0 0 0 4.8
Number of occurrences109 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors8 7 1

Occurrences of trousers in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
a plain white blouse n black trousers. Addison's maw hus a grey pow on page 51

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
cted bunnet wearin, rolled up trousers, hipster colonisation of the on page 3

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Stripped doun tae wir trousers, buits an kneepads, on page 83
raced, an wi the arse out his trousers! Aa his gear wis confiscated, on page 101

2 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
torn a hole in the erse o ma trousers.”
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
tucks himself back intae his trousers and sits up, standing from th
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
on/holiday, line/queue, pants/trousers).
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
im mask on Donald Whaur's Yer Trousers.(2020) search twitter
he words o Donald Whaur's yer trousers(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Cromie, Willie Doon tha Wal Raa, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1739905620) Ulster - Ballywalter, prose
laes An a shirt is a sark, An trousers become breeks ye wull fin. A
1 matches

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