A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bosses'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bossesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.797
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 bosses in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
ference o opinion wae his BBC bosses aboot the acceptable density
1 matches

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
acher, bi yer parents, bi yer bosses, bi yer peers, bi the bams on
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Grim-faced left thair bosses meetin, Wi thair p45! on page 47

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
agin the avariciousness o the bosses nivver stoppit. An aince the on page 147

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
e nineteenth century the mill bosses in Dundee had figured oot it on page 50
he normal rin o things an the bosses were fair reluctant tae be le on page 59

2 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Is it rammin yer heid up the bosses erse? on page 18

1 matches

General Central

@bigandymccoll tweeted
Here's a tweet tae show yer bosses @STVKathryn ?? https://t.co/G (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
and thin with colleagues and bosses and went thru’ disciplinary (2021) twitter link