A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

losing Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 2.6 12.1 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences145 8 0 1 0 0
Number of authors9 4 4 1

Occurrences of losing in Corpus

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Central

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
her. A didnae even care aboot losing the race because Da would be on page 39

1 matches

Macdonald, Ileene Fit’s it aa aboot?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
e referendum. Somehow despite losing the war, the Yes campaign app
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ke unknoting spaghetti-- am i losing it or are you - whit's Eva p (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
he roads - and have vehicles losing control every where - go awa (2021) twitter link
entia @Iromg snp and the fm r losing it in scotland if this goes a (2020) twitter link

Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
coins. “I’m sorry for you losing pay because I frightened you,
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
e bigger issues o winning and losing are jist as likely tae impact (2022) twitter link
_mfc I get the argument aboot losing the joy in the moment - but (2022) twitter link
n Cove reach a ceiling, start losing mair than they win? Say the D (2022) twitter link
he reaction o the players tae losing the goals was bang on (2021) twitter link
t blow tae Ebbe’s tenior was losing Tommy Neilson right at the st (2020) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
@AFCHereWeGo Mind losing maist o that black away top t(2020) search twitter

@McGoo1888 tweeted
eh yersell jings...that's me losing a few?????? (2021) twitter link

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
up against me daday and I’m losing #IBSisawful (2019) twitter link