Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sportin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

sportin	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5	16	11
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	2
NEC - North East Central	92.7	2	1
SEC - (South) East Central	10.2	4	3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.6	2	2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	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 sportin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
s - his twa loons comin ahin sportin the exack same Style. . on page 43

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
sut doon it the kitchen table sportin her new Shit Happens T-shirt. on page 74

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ot, Kelvin is in the Pitsliga sportin
1 matches

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
) tak wi them a wee bit o the sportin the culture o the Scots tae S
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
en. Nooadays it’s maistly a sportin estate, wi the remnants o a c
n that gets in the road o his sportin estate seems tae enn up the w
2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
twinty suttin brunette. Who's sportin what kin only be described as on page 76
ignin burgundy cap. He's also sportin a jaundice coloured zippy whi on page 168

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Poems aboot Scots sportin heroes the likes o Chic Charn
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
s ee I imagined masel being a sportin super star. I wanted tae play
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ma team bit as a student o’ sportin ’ prowess A salute them as g
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ll as kin be expected. He’s sportin a predictable black French co
1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
n in the Lawlands, near tae a sportin estate, it’s likely I see t
ther craiturs alangside their sportin targets should be allou’t t
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando “Blood Upon the Grass” – merk twa?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
itzy, expensive, capitalistic sportin occasiofitbans on the planet.
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
isnae Sco vs Wales a wid be a sportin Wales in this! ? http://t.co/(2015)