A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sitting Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words15.5 13.3 22.4 0 23.2 32.8 8.8
Number of occurrences4825 14 0 4 3 2
Number of authors33 17 9 3 2 2

Occurrences of sitting 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
Robert Fergusson - The Sitting of the Session on page 78

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Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
blaw groun, like ugsome taeds sitting crouse in a vegetable patch e on page 18

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Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
did, and ye widni want to be sitting next to this boy on the bus o
1 matches

McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
nce day one. And now am here, sitting oan the bench in the changing
1 matches

Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
ah wis, sittin' by the fire, sitting and thinkin' aboot the auld d
1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ie” and he wid notice Davie sitting wi his back tae everybody.
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Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
couple o tartan blankets for sitting on and the essential fishing
ae rejoin the ithers wha were sitting on a bench adjacent tae the c
2 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
this picture o Alec Salmond, sitting oan a bucket reading them tae
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ree, he will say Beatrice was sitting beside him at the back of the
or that bit of paper that was sitting next to the computer.”
2 matches

Eunson, Catherine Freude, (The Scores 2020) Central, poetry
and God be thankit sitting on my ain cairpet
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
t was a guid day A... We were sitting reminiscing aboot the first f (2023) twitter link
Right, I'm sat sitting here relaxing noo.. I'm gonna (2023) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
i me........espicially as i'm sitting in hospital waiting room and (2014) search twitter
en route fir food shop before sitting doon tae decide whit Scottish(2014) search twitter

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@wgsaraband A this his been sitting gey ill wi me (pun) for as ye(2020) search twitter

@OliphantWullie tweeted
appear I made a faux pas when sitting in my local café tweeting in (2022) twitter link

@bigandymccoll tweeted
@Jeggit She appears tae be sitting next tae the Tea Sock ?? (2022) twitter link

@rattlecans tweeted
other Ma or an auld pensioner sitting oot at her back door wi her m (2022) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
morn. Ah'll be the wee fella sitting oan the stool wae a box o' bl(2021) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ne - as u no a dinnae do the sitting on the fence stuff - b oan l (2020) twitter link
a rest ma case enjoy sitting in the hoose guys lol (2020) twitter link
distance n have masks on and sitting in groups of 6 and ps i hope (2020) twitter link
tead of mumping and moaning n sitting on the fence - that of cours (2020) twitter link

Doric

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
oy. Ma favourite. It hid been sitting at the back on page 41

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Bowie, Tyler Stookie, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
So here a am sitting getting fair spilt. Fowk runn
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
a city,’ the Officer says, sitting up.
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
he surgery faa should he find sitting there on the aal pew o the wa
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@FaeFoggie tweeted
st afore it crashed through i sitting room windae ??(2019) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
tend and the females would be sitting there, arms crossed with that (2020) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
ur the international break is sitting at loon Scott Wright doon an (2020) search twitter
s aff loons. There will be no sitting allowed. Let's bounce this pl(2020) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
@lsimscor Sitting here scunnert(2020) search twitter
PAberdeen Maybe he scunnert o sitting roon the table amongst feels(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Bar on yer video as I've been sitting in same seat for the last 70 (2016) search twitter
Sitting ootside ma gerden the day wee(2017) search twitter
Sitting in ma favourite seat in Fitti(2017) search twitter
hose moods that the choice is sitting on ma arse all efterneen or t(2018) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
bs. Laek in I'm coming or I'm sitting down de'r on page 76
sitting down de'r nae object, onli da on page 95

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Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
wis Auld Daa's winter's wark, sitting on his seat in da byre in his
1 matches

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
And aboot her husband sitting at nights making "büdies" fa

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
Sitting watchin the world gane by and(2019) search twitter
achines.chemicals involved so sitting doing fool all. #fireinthehol(2012) search twitter

@StuartPoet tweeted
d it's shocking. Used to love sitting on the bench there waiting fo(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
eGael Was thon Hanna doll nat sitting beside wee Jeffrey when he wa(2019) search twitter

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
ae wait til ah get redd up an sitting doon wi it lass! https://t.co (2021) twitter link