A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'catching'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
catchingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 catching in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Casino catching sight of his first Pallas's w(2018)

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
to start WWIII in Fittie! Nae catching fish fer ma tea at the pier t(2016)
this weather! Mare chunce of catching a cauld and a sair heed wee m(2017)

Edinburgh

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
oth silent fir a few minutes, catching our breath. Simon tucks himse
1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
I hope ye're catching quite the tan getting roasted on page 34

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
ae plan fir the morrow before catching some zzzzzzzz's. @ComeCoachWi(2014)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
shorse Shit yer mou yer arena catching flies(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
id weather for staying in and catching up on the @scotslanguage and (2020)