A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

killing Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 3.6 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences87 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of killing in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
1680-1688 - THE KILLING TIMES on page 48

1 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
The Killing Times on page 45

1 matches

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
lt me that other folk dae the killing and that it wis normal. Wee f on page 37
rderer Da, a really slow one. Killing me as slowly as you can: on page 41

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
id wi a dooble murder an self-killing in 1883 in Kirkfieldbank by L on page 59

1 matches

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
king forward tae this moment! Killing the boy who has been such a n
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
t that bad is wis kent as the KIlling Time.

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
e do all you can to stop them killing birds. My pal's cat just kill(2013) search twitter