Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

running	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	14.4	16.6	19.4	0	5.8	0	0
Number of occurrences	47	33	13	0	1	0	0
Number of authors	27	20	6		1

Occurrences of running in Corpus

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Central

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
cos she saw how fast ad been running oot the back field and how ha on page 38
ack tae the house wi ma mucky running shoes in one plastic bag and on page 39

2 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
t me, getting tae his feet an running doon the hall intae toilet. on page 3

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
. in the sentence 'The bus is running late', the word 'bus' is the on page 32

3 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
Ane secont he was running fou tilt through the cornfiel on page 17

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
they can take a running jump in the wind. on page 91

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
form of a dragon with a tail, running through the firmament, and in
ugh the firmament, and in the running giving great light and spouti
2 matches

St Luke's Primary Schuil, Midlothian The Mayfield Moose, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
uckle, peeliewally moose came running oot the hoose. The moose boon
1 matches

Grubb, Adrian Bungee, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Kirkcaldy, prose
pal Emma who was practically running it, came up tae me sayin that
1 matches

McClelland, Ben Chicagof Island, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
hen they got there, they were running oot a daylight n immediately
1 matches

Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
ished or takin tae the air or running awa? But it disny really mait
1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Sorry mate, running l8. be there in 10. D
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
'His spirit is clear like running water,' says Hammy, and the o
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
here and there. The river wis running quite low as there hadnae bee
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
quickest aff the mark tae go running fur a teacher, and ither boys
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
ront, and we were free tae go running and paddling as often as we l
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@Carolro28744016 Im running oot of excuses here ????(2020) search twitter

@g_hibby tweeted
e tae get some wall shelves.. Running oot o' space for ma models.. (2023) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
d luck wirh getting it up and running. Hugggggssss to you??, Kate? (2019) search twitter

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
aneyGodley weel we ken wha is running the show an nae just in Bute (2020) search twitter
try that afore and then gyang running sookin up mair than only P4 g(2020) search twitter

@bigandymccoll tweeted
tae think that they should be running the planet. (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
Derek at the moment the snp r running the game n as the sfa follow (2021) twitter link
ar bias for the second season running in favour of kelty hearts - (2021) twitter link
andemic started and now he is running our lives - no mine your (2021) twitter link
racing at lochgelly has been running since the 1st august and was (2020) twitter link
est when the fitbaw gets up n running again (2021) twitter link
and 3 other occurrences.

Doric

The Flying Pigs The ‘Naked Cleaners’ idea is appalling. It’s sexist, demeaning, and at £80 an hour, steep, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
ouse, but I ayewiz find masel running oot o’ cash at this time o�
moneymaking scheme. She came running in tae my hoose a’ in a flu
2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ma ither website ah ah'm running a competition tae win £25.00(2017) search twitter
Fa minds running aroon Aiberdeen wi ae i' thes(2018) search twitter
Ahm running a buik on fit latchie the new(2018) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
@cristofoli5 @Haggis_UK Running Britain down? Its a shithoo (2022) twitter link
ist gan tae have tae hit grun running (2022) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
as a scunner. I hid tae gee a running commentary masel. A neer spat(2020) search twitter
cost ye a bomb if ya left it running for 13 years Quine(2020) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
e canna play his direct style running at defences(2020) search twitter
CSportsound He is a wee nyaff running oot his contract If the Don's(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ood at hame! Aye, fit ye find running about the streets end up in y(2019) search twitter
save yon glass owine whilst running fer yer life #priorities(2020) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Turns oot the moose running aboot ma hoose is mad for cou(2020) search twitter