Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

eating	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	5.9	4.6	9	9.9	0	20.7	4.4
Number of occurrences	19	9	6	1	0	2	1
Number of authors	16	9	3	1		2	1

Occurrences of eating in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Whilst eating some puir beast he'd caucht on page 31

1 matches

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
hinking aboot it. "Wee fishes eating other wee fishes ...a mean, w on page 36

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ma sister. He even hud ma dad eating ootae the palm ae his hand, L on page 198

1 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
n thit our mum widnae want me eating thon this close tae ma
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
��m afraid all those years of eating sweeties have caught up with
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ous Well naebody will ever be eating that, after reading this ?? ?(2020) search twitter

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
e stand the stuff, its like eating a sponge. Crispy breed rules (2020) search twitter

@gordimhor1 tweeted
a John It's a guid excuse for eating cake though(2019) search twitter

@LowEndJardo tweeted
cause am straight up just no eating but also this is the most sli (2021) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
tae story with you in yir bed eating toast the day efter ?? (2020) twitter link

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
worse - she could have been eating a banana... ????(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
hunty, comes back oot & a dug eating ma piece!(2017) search twitter
Eating ma chicken leg now the wife c(2017) search twitter
back guiness efter guiness & eating far too muckle toasties, nae (2018) search twitter
yon chewy rubbery meat! Like eating a rat's backside! Nae that af(2018) search twitter

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
lies & will be great for seed-eating birds in winter(2020) search twitter

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
Family nxt ti is get up after eating& drinking get up and leave. T(2019) search twitter

@StuartPoet tweeted
ter fruit and yoghurt brekky. Eating healthy, walking loads, light(2020) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
Scotch lilt. "I'm not tae be eating the rations. That wouldn't be on page 39

1 matches