A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pleasing Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1 3 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences62 2 1 0 0 1
Number of authors6 2 2 1 1

Occurrences of pleasing in Corpus

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Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
or such-like folk there is no pleasing,
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
g @80_mcswan The idea of Gove pleasing Cummings is gein me the boak(2020) search twitter

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
I see a sicht sae pleasing tae me,
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
couple of times oot wide wis pleasing(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
surprising, progressive, and pleasing moments. Above aal, this book on page 1

1 matches

Ulster

BardOfMilebush Untitled poem, (Reddit 2017) Ulster, poetry
way we spake, I find it unco pleasing
1 matches

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