A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'phoning'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
phoningOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.244
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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
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 phoning in Corpus

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General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
ffa excited wee a Spanish lad phoning in cos he couldn't get here w(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ng to be from amazon that are phoning people just now and compromis (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
t. There’s no chance ah’m phoning that shower ay bloody arsehol
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General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
It's a far sight easier, than phoning, or trailing doon tae the sug (2023) twitter link