A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

buying Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 3.7 9.6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences137 6 0 0 0 0
Number of authors12 7 5

Occurrences of buying in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ma was there anaw and she was buying calamine lotion an she kept t on page 134

1 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
shooting grouse on the hills, buying up fantoosh hooses in Stockbr
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
would calm down wi the panic buying, it's no helping them or anyb(2020) search twitter

@fourmenterian tweeted
r get fed up with croissants (buying not baking) but still gonna g(2020) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ing aboot tesco wae nae mask, buying a carry oot for their hoose p(2020) search twitter

@ThonJacobite tweeted
the man. Ah dinnae approve o buying fae Amazon so ah'll hae tae w(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@EdinburghLive_ let the panic buying begin lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
it hope wis there noo oO ivir buying a hoose - the price they wer on page 18

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@DoricPhrases tweeted
ermarket like a gypit feil an buying up aa the milk an breid - sn(2019) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
ecord_Sport @ScottBurns75 Try buying or signing any striker who is (2021) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
that fae a company when I was buying panel adhesive on ebay took t(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
nip! Told the lassie I'm nae buying the bottle! Face like a weet (2017) search twitter
I've nae idea if it was worth buying yon milk fer ma porridge earl(2018) search twitter

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