A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

checking Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 2.1 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences54 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of checking in Corpus

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Central

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
websites that does yer spell-checking and that (he, of course, wiz
1 matches

Macdonald, Amy Evelynn and Peter, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
Whit if Mrs Avery has stopped checking in Ah anely said an oor". Ah
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
“Hi Edith, just checking in on you,” he says. “Hav
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
e aboot maself the day, I wis checking ma walking shoes thought cann(2020) search twitter

Doric

@cligeey tweeted
@nicolaforbes32 Jist checking its still there(2020) search twitter