A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'putting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
puttingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.21713
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 12.7 5 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 putting in Corpus

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General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
fter them for wiks n wiks the putting them in a pot o bilin water t(2020)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
th in the toilet wi water and putting the twa current gowdfish inta
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@rosebrook22 Bit like me putting the buckets oot ??(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
course they do but thanx for putting me right - this is what happ (2021) twitter link
@RyanMusselburgh hees either putting on the posts for bites - or (2020) twitter link
big chance and tbh i wont be putting my faith in the snp this time (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ngly brisk articulacy, rarely putting himsel further out of breath
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
He's putting up a good fight though, tae b on page 13

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
. I have tae dae that awkward putting doon of the mandolin, an plec on page 3

2 matches

General Central

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
cent is embarrassing. You are putting me off my expensive dinner. on page 4

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
dundee district cooncil - putting the heart back into the city on page 32

1 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
who knew putting the washing machine oan at th(2014)

@g_hibby tweeted
was impressed when I started putting it the 'gither.. Guid bit o' (2022) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
tland.Richt will DM you after putting monies across! Hope thats alr(2015)
o China fundraising treck be putting donation across laters?. Hugg(2015)

South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
your auld man? I'm currently putting together a book about the sem(2020)