A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

keeping Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13.6 12.8 9.6 9.9 17.4 54.7 13.3
Number of occurrences4224 6 1 3 5 3
Number of authors32 16 5 1 3 4 3

Occurrences of keeping in Corpus

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Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
sic a lang time. How's Betsy keeping? And wee a Jean? Is she still on page 92

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Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
tless erse further ahint her, keeping Ella's heid awa oot oan the e on page 67

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Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
the loop, which wizni tricky keeping in mind that Evans takes so l
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Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
es. Naw tae fracking. Aye tae keeping wir public services public, b
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Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
t it noo, the very process ay keeping the gairden as close tae her
Hardly in keeping wae Tindal’s vision for the
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Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
’s the plan. My priority is keeping everyone at Enfield Sanitary
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Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
nner quid and banned him frae keeping animals for ten year, it wis
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“I’m sorry about keeping you in the dark - I did real
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Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
lum Kirkcaldy wis grantit the keeping o the castle o Embra bi the L
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
he hint leg o a grumphie, and keeping jerk-jerkin him back, you can
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@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ople to stay home essentially keeping people prisoner but these fan(2020) search twitter

@g_hibby tweeted
better than ironing.. And yer keeping dry.. :) Have a guid afternoo (2022) twitter link
lways thought of him.... But, keeping my thoughts tae masel' Brenda (2023) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
@JeffBrazier @CloserOnline Keeping goals achievable and obtainab(2015) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
@STVNews Willie's jist keeping that seat warm for somebody w(2020) search twitter
@brawday He's keeping his eye oan us(2020) search twitter

@rattlecans tweeted
about 10 would be the herders keeping us away fae the busy road (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
in a fantastic job just now n keeping going regardless - n each n (2020) twitter link
by now what the script is - keeping the teams in the dark like th (2021) twitter link
reath of fresh air by sean - keeping every one up to date and now (2021) twitter link
nts for the one person and am keeping the last account open in the (2020) twitter link
any thanx to the people who r keeping me up 2 date by pms about the (2020) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.

Doric

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Of course I have been keeping my usual notes about the with
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
ome rare Aberdeenshire sun an keeping the girss doon! https://t.co/(2016) search twitter

@FaeFoggie tweeted
'rona gaan aboot. Hope abdys keeping fine(2021) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
n formation - simply, Duk is keeping him oot the side (2022) twitter link
67Book @EamonnONeill Hope yir keeping well ma loon, looking forward (2020) twitter link

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
@fidelmacook Hope yer keeping fine Fidelma x(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
s for our protection and safe keeping...' on page 37

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Shetland

Walterson, Barbara Da Trow o’ Fogla Skerry, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
gain, but instead sometin wis keeping me wide awak and it wisna da
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Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
cial watching oot for dis and keeping things semi-right.

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
wir very pernickety aboot wis keeping dir lugs clean. Dey even hed
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Southern

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Keeping Souter 'Oan the Buses'! on page 211

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Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
photo tae Yid Nichol, fur his keeping. Ay, Tammy’s hoose wis juis
fock keeping ae periodic ey on ‘um. Efte
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@cammyrudkin tweeted
hisholmIain @feesho he wuni b keeping up wi play ti si it chegs #ne(2012) search twitter

@officialAliRed tweeted
wee character! I hope you're keeping well and active ??(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
ment of excitement instead of keeping it under wraps for a proper P(2020) search twitter

@HurchinHome tweeted
Guid tae hear yer daein weel! Keeping busy owre here! Definitely tr(2020) search twitter

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
ta @Zippo an @SgothanGeal fur keeping me wairm tha day as ah chek t (2021) twitter link