A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

leaving Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.8 6.2 15.1 0 11.6 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2512 10 0 2 0 1
Number of authors23 12 8 2 1

Occurrences of leaving in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
the elevator it's as if he's leaving one world and entering anothe on page 14

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Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
a hot day and a felt bad fir leaving her oot there wioot anything on page 39

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Leaving behin aa them that we hae ken on page 15

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Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
ays at Barry Schuil were over leaving me wi fond memories o my chum on page 120

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Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
heir power in the eon between leaving his gob and reaching uptae hi
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Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
on his leaving Harrow
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Macdonald, Amy Evelynn and Peter, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
. Ah don’t feel comfortable leaving her in the hoose by hersel an
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Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e loans found in Scots ([…] leaving aside Caithness and the North
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Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
ld feel them boring intae me, leaving tiny marks; I can see them no
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Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Leaving Glinda and the Munchkins faur
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Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
wrenched his haun up and awa, leaving behind a trail ae red gristle
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ta juniors n bathgate thistle leaving the juniors to go eos - grea (2021) twitter link

Doric

Harvey, Lewis Crash, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
Leaving ma hoose to go to skweel it w
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Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
an in his seventies get oot o leaving ahin the only land he’s eve
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Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ld chap!" he left the office, leaving the Chief Constable contempla
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
. It means interfering or not leaving something alone. Mony thanks (2014) search twitter
Naughty Jack Frost leaving me a phallus symbol under ma (2019) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
letting players ken they are leaving, understandably so you could (2022) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
mory Ye remembered fan in but leaving wis hazy(2020) search twitter

@daleser23 tweeted
lumC19 aye holiday gan arite. Leaving for hame imorn tho. Haha ana (2013) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
. Fit went wrang? We're happy leaving the bar AM(2016) search twitter
Leaving my hoose windows open fer 5 m(2018) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
you want to get in touch. I'm leaving on the 12.30 plane on Friday. on page 24

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@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ore incident and ban them fae leaving the school at dinner break.(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
s "Whar'r ye stappin?" - fur leaving's lea'in. on page 37

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