A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'crossing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
crossingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.655
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 crossing in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

Harvey, Lewis Crash, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
d off at me for nae using her crossing. As usual a jist ignored her.
1 matches

(South) East Central

McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
other player n goes oot wide, crossing the baw in the box tae Deli A
1 matches

Crawford, Ross Mindin, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
ike when she misjudged a road crossing in Largs and ah heard a swear
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
is the amazing queensferry crossing open today or is there someon (2020) twitter link

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
jet heading for the Atlantic crossing up there... :) Have a guid da (2023) twitter link