A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bringing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bringingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus51613
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.3 6 4
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bringing in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
fur my dochter June - shü's bringing up a faimly a five on her ain on page 42

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ah’m taen ower fae Jackie an bringing a touch o #Doric tae oor scre(2019)
celebrated Victory in Europe bringing tae lowse sax yrs uncertainty(2020)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
at would get them to agree to bringing the panels here.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Then at last, bringing up the rear, on page 26

1 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
colleague Angus MacDonald for bringing this debate before Parliament
, I thank Angus MacDonald for bringing the debate to the chamber.
2 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
gin their dams by the dizzen. Bringing the wolves hames has wrocht a
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ndependence vote now - after bringing your country to its knees yes (2020) twitter link
is old news and yet you keep bringing it up - at least thae lads a (2021) twitter link

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
ah blame his faither, fer no bringing him up richt. Ah mean, his da
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ose beyond my expectation, by bringing into one view the result of d
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
eaching doon tae ma erse, but bringing them back up a the last secon
1 matches

Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
s the day afore and they were bringing in crates of tins and jars an on page 42

1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
ny chance you're thinkin bout bringing #TheSalon back tae oor tv scr(2015)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
re we go way the promises of 'bringing people together' and 'rebuild(2021)