A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'showing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
showingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.21713
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 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
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 showing in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
r our peerie wander leaflets, showing you some of Shetland’s acces(2020)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
doon an saw her mochie reets showing an socht her if it wis time s(2019)
ng habits. They are currently showing me a mini vacuum cleaner aat (2020)

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
@jirvine29 Hawl Jimmy...stoap showing aff ya chunt...naebody likes (2022) twitter link

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
showing up BP, on page 18

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
xt and then say weel done for showing some real resilience - tae n (2020) twitter link
and the wife due tae the loon showing symptoms - 14 days is a thoc (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
See some folk are showing solidarity wee the cooncil n (2020)

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
adly through split seams, but showing no sign of deflation.
1 matches

Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
ight cheer Da up a wee bit by showing him the pups so a went and gr on page 40

1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
. And they’re certainly not showing any sign that they are slowin
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
t? When will red button start showing though? xxx(2015)
much is that in £ please as showing in $ just now, an afraid at 2(2015)
@ComedyCentralUK get round to showing them.....oh and I'll look for(2018)

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
r coming tae my hame Toon and showing support x(2018)

@weenell3 tweeted
GHLANDER2 @AberdeenFC Players showing Racism the Red Card pity you (2022) twitter link

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