A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

stinging Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences42 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 2 2

Occurrences of stinging in Corpus

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Central

Briggs, Susi My Yellow Yorlin, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
I steyed still there, stinging an sair
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n_Pacey aye ee canna beat the stinging when ee splash it oan special (2020) twitter link

Doric

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
irm and it quickly burns wi a stinging pain.
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
z swift and she gave Jessie a stinging slap in the face. That seemed
1 matches

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