A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

referring Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 0.5 4.5 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences61 3 1 1 0 0
Number of authors6 1 3 1 1

Occurrences of referring in Corpus

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Central

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
Sayers33 ?? ?? I ken whit yer referring tae anaw. Hilarious ??(2019) search twitter

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
hese Niebuhrs, Tyler? Are you referring to Richard Niebuhr's Christ a on page 57

1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
ies I get the comment you’re referring to but we are using these gam (2020) twitter link

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
nunciation of ‘Hendersons’) referring to anything particularly toug(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
g for the opposition? She’s referring tae a neighbouring factory a
1 matches

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
Imagine referring tae bein a murderer as a 'fla(2021) search twitter