A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'busta'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bustaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.863
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 busta in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
tak her somewye special, lack Busta Hoose" on page 38
Sheila at Randy Andy took ta Busta dat time? Shü's a righe stun on page 40
anniversary. We're gyaain tae Busta fur a meal. Dats whaar it aa on page 41

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Laurenson, Hannah Lisa Da Maa's Eggs, (Hands Up For Trad 2019) Shetland, prose
aff for da Laird’s hoose at Busta whaar in exchange for da maaâ
and gee wis hugs. Da walk tae Busta wid tak a good tree hours dar
2 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
me doin 40), den turned in da Busta Road an up ta Ladies Mire??? (2019) twitter link

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