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The word 'busses'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bussesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.51810
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 11.9 9 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of busses in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
jobby, wi whin busses an orrals o aa kinds, wytin f
1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 77 - Whaur Gadie Rins, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
ir the cottage wi the grossit busses. The gamie an his faimily wer on page 56

1 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 78 - Scots Teegars, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric, prose
r yonder!" A said, pyntin tae busses growein in the gairden. on page 80

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
a at the heather an blaeberry busses.
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
an prohibitive traivel costs. Busses tae Embra teuk ower twa oors,
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
is amang the rocks an scroggy busses. Bill led her awa fae Hsien,
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
tae mak ruif-trees, an sauch busses an hazel wands tae weave an b on page 50
he wis hidden by clump o whin busses forty yairds frae the hous .. on page 59

2 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
is it no, that sheep eat wee busses?' on page 21
prince that baobabs arena wee busses, by tee as muckle as kirks; a on page 22
He didna tak tent o three wee busses. on page 24
'Gin a sheep eats sma busses, dis it eat flooers forby?' on page 27

5 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
he pound war a taigle o sauch busses an birks wi muckle sways o br on page 59

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
staunin in the lae o the hie busses, hiddled frae the lamplicht? on page 16

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
doun tae vegetables an fruit busses. Tae us bairns it wis lik a s
gs ar thirlt tae ma mind: the busses whittelt intae the shape of p
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
Rash busses were drookit tae their ritts.
1 matches

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