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The word 'voss'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
vossOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1101
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 17.7 7 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 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 voss in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
the voss cawin’m. He hed a caller py
The voss wes aye cawin but the howff.
Bot thon voss wes nou ringin richt in hiz l
ap o the train in a fell loud voss.
e the lyme-lichts, Napier’s voss wes reduced
7 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
i the hie auld, stotterie voss at semed ti bene tuined an br on page 3
uther, an in the samen tuin o voss; raither hie, sae at aw the r on page 7

2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
"Happie!" hir voss hed a dirl intilt lik muisik, on page 1

1 matches

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