A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'floss'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
flossOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5154
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 69.7 12 1
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
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 floss in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
r bit a laand, foo a burra an floss whin da Tamsons cam i da 1860 on page 7
ls though, an just adores wir Floss - da feelin is mutual, ah'm on page 10
Floss, dir ting 3 dug, canna even g on page 47
ushed oot, "Oh, an can du gie Floss her brakkfast whin shü turns on page 48

12 matches

Mid Northern A

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
A'll use yer taes tae floss ma fangs, on page 15

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
A candy floss later an then on page 111

1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
an scoffin ice cream an candy floss on page 28

1 matches

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