A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'growing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
growingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.71211
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 3
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 growing in Corpus

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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Growing Old Gracefully on page 98

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
, The Noose & Monkey and HMT, growing louder in your head, whipping(2016)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
ight fae that centre has been growing year on year (2020) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Bar fer a wik due tae ma ever growing gout on ma fit. Bit gasping s(2016)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
ent on in my hoose when I was growing up. Everything was done in th(2020)

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Evans chuckled back again wi growing frustration, of course, bubbl
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
Attended it's growing,
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ll make it something worth growing!’ and she planted wild stra
1 matches

General Central

@rattlecans tweeted
I cannae imagine growing up in a hoose where the MOTHE (2022) twitter link
plants wid we need tae start growing fur ma friends tae eat... bam (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
But growing auld past times evoke on page 43

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
Growing up wi’ Crohn’s wisnae eas
1 matches

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