A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'tossers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tossersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.174
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 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 tossers in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ither – bit neither wad the tossers, dossers an minkers she tryst
1 matches

General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
deaf than listen to either. #tossers(2013)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
me back in if a withdraw the tossers/dipstick remarks? am askin co (2021) twitter link
d oan a couple o pints - the tossers of the snobby society psml (2020) twitter link
phy pie n bovrils fir awe the tossers that ken nowt aboot fitba - (2021) twitter link
gend - dunno hoo the other 2 tossers r tho lol (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
And thare's squatters and tossers and dossers and aw on page 153

1 matches

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