A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'knitting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
knittingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 knitting in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Knitting, books a photo? on page 44

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
steel wires, ends safe in her knitting belt. on page 47

1 matches

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
KirsteenMullay I've picked up knitting in this time! It's kinda like (2015) twitter link
Can tell it’s been a knitting day daday, goin ta bed noo an (2019) twitter link

@HazelTindall tweeted
and raepin string. #shetland #knitting #fairisle https://t.co/H74xoX(2020)

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
y time for relaxing.. Get the knitting oot... :) Nae need tae bother (2022) twitter link

@gordimhor1 tweeted
h especially gin they rip yir knitting(2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
back door wi her magazines or knitting, when we were tots, by time w (2022) twitter link