A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sportin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 6.2 6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1612 4 0 0 0 0
Number of authors11 8 3

Occurrences of sportin in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
twinty suttin brunette. Who's sportin what kin only be described as on page 76
ignin burgundy cap. He's also sportin a jaundice coloured zippy whi on page 168

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Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
n in the Lawlands, near tae a sportin estate, it’s likely I see t
ther craiturs alangside their sportin targets should be allou’t t
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Poems aboot Scots sportin heroes the likes o Chic Charn
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Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
s ee I imagined masel being a sportin super star. I wanted tae play
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McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ma team bit as a student o’ sportin’ prowess A salute them as g
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McClurg, Fernando “Blood Upon the Grass” – merk twa?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
itzy, expensive, capitalistic sportin occasiofitbans on the planet.
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Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
en. Nooadays it’s maistly a sportin estate, wi the remnants o a c
n that gets in the road o his sportin estate seems tae enn up the w
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ll as kin be expected. He’s sportin a predictable black French co
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@jax6754 tweeted
isnae Sco vs Wales a wid be a sportin Wales in this! ? http://t.co/(2015) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
s - his twa loons comin ahin sportin the exack same Style. . on page 43

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
sut doon it the kitchen table sportin her new Shit Happens T-shirt. on page 74

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Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ot, Kelvin is in the Pitsliga sportin
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Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
) tak wi them a wee bit o the sportin the culture o the Scots tae S
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