A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'tossed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tossedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71913
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 tossed in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
d and threshed. Aal night, he tossed and turned. on page 16
We tossed and dived alongside Hoy and I on page 21
e when his poor owld pet he'd tossed And, somewhar in Sooth Ronald on page 52
And they tossed a coin tae book their turns f on page 77

4 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
He chaaved aboot an tossed an turned The duvet cover rum on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ane o er patronisin leuks an tossed er bottle blone curls. "It's on page 35

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Isie tossed her lang reid pleats an sniff
he youngest quine on the ferm tossed on her bowster an dreamt o th
Isie tossed her heid in disbelief.
3 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
ses gently fae its lums an us tossed like cotton through the lift
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
ancy daen the club,' the Boot tossed his dout intae the gutter. on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ot and burst the baw. Yince a tossed the deflated fitbaw oor tae t on page 40

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
le love it - the feckers get tossed up n doon awe ower the place (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Hsien tossed an turnt an sweitit. The muin
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
‘Och, aye.’ Allan tossed up a Hail Mary pass. ‘Dinna
1 matches

Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
he shouted me over sometimes, tossed me a few scones and gave me a on page 38

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
let at Killiecrankie - as he tossed on mony a sleepless nicht wi on page 47

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
hin tae say. At bedtime, they tossed and turned aw nicht, hairdly on page 17

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ck in hauf across his knee an tossed intae the Marnock. “I hope
1 matches

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