A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

giving Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.4 5.8 12.8 0 11.6 10.9 4.4
Number of occurrences2311 8 0 2 1 1
Number of authors15 8 3 2 1 1

Occurrences of giving in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
firmament, and in the running giving great light and spouting fire
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
or come in. The suppliers are giving me merry hell, as you’d say
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ay so,” agreed Mrs Bose, “giving you time off to attend to you
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
the edge. Ah know ma face is giving it away, cheeks no doubt flus
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@DavidJWood2 tweeted
stuck in the hoose with MrsW giving me things tae do, or work. De(2020) search twitter

@jax6754 tweeted
role model for them. An your giving them a stable upbringing tae!(2015) search twitter

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
Any Celtic fans giving it the "what aboot Sinclair" (2018) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@Dunsy_27 spot on brother - giving people no hope with that stat (2021) twitter link
by the sounders and leafa for giving the go ahead for the tourname (2021) twitter link
s awe the hassle away without giving any info out - o happy days (2020) twitter link
only one ecky salmond - keep giving them it tight brother - u we (2021) twitter link

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
I’m giving away a signed copy of my nove(2018) search twitter
ion - fa kent! An Aberdonian giving awa free cash! Enter aat http(2018) search twitter
On ma ither website ah'm giving awa twinty five poun - enter(2018) search twitter
peen an teaspeen an ah’m nae giving tham back, an ah’m nae gyan (2018) search twitter
ted himsel as a singer aifter giving fowk balloons fur auld claes.(2019) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
als stopped Oswald Mosely fae giving a speech in the toon in the (2020) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
te o this ned @Ciaran_Dickson Giving it big licks with his phone t(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
with public life. And as for giving them decent clothes - well - on page 35

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
I'll be giving a peerie webinar next week???(2020) search twitter

Southern

@officialAliRed tweeted
Adam's Kitchen in #Hawick giving presents to the bairns - a t(2019) search twitter

Ulster

@fairfaaye tweeted
y a Croodlin Doo (Woodpigeon) giving her lilty? Let's hear some ot(2020) search twitter