Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'cus'

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Use in varieties of Scots

cus	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	40.2	131	7
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	336.8	103	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	110.3	24	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
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 cus in Corpus

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Orkney

Ljosland, Ragnhild New, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
Cus no-one here can pronounce me
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
jist wurket oot fyne fur me, cus fin a weis a bairn, hee wid o on page 4
up thi big waicht on a cheyn, cus cis furl't roon thi mukkul ma on page 5
grun's weis handee fur heis, cus we hid a sma vejitable gairde on page 6
ff an on thi licht, ov coarse cus o thi big tyde's wid allow ei on page 7
id offcn be a dainjereis job, cus appairt fae thi obveeous pics on page 9
Also on pages 10, 11, 12, 13, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 34, 37, 39, 40, 41, 50, 55, 56, 57, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69
91 matches

Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
e for a shower afore bed time cus we hid school. I jist wish yi
wish yi wis at young foriver cus a miss times like es; they wi
e. Mam musta cracked up it us cus at's just silly! Mind we iway
ss aahin. Use tae piss us off cus we wid hiv tae mak the hooses
e put the Barbies in the bath cus the hair wid go aawye. We jus
12 matches

General Northern

Chapman, Henry , (Facebook 2018) Doric, poetry
‘cus they’d niver seen sic a tid
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ry min! Donna get carried awa cus it wis a bra day the day! I'v(2019)

West Central

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
sichts. Ah cud tak’ ma time cus even though I cud hae ta’en
adows. Ah didnae dawdle there cus in theym days ye’d be as li
hoo they git their recruits. Cus if ye wis walkin alang the pa
Which ah wis prepared tae dae cus ah didn’t want tae hang aro
still that wee bitty exciting cus they wis exotic an’ apart f
11 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
lly join in this conversation cus his childhood wis mair Giles
’s a bit o’ the rhetoric, cus fer maist o’ us the biggest
d by religion. Mebbe that’s cus we wis frae the East no the W
ndy wid say we lik tae debate cus o’ oor Enlightenment histor
Cus Andy, he’d studied politics
13 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
d told him tae feel this way, cus it felt important.
1 matches