A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sticking'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stickingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1109
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 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 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 sticking in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
s been done afore am finished sticking it on the conveyor belt.(2020)

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
bbed it..wan eh it's legs wis sticking oot mah lips..said tae them p (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
ing else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing on page 24

1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
hid a bike up the Ythan cars sticking a wid be doon wee a tractor Â(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
next lot. Would be better aff sticking on Drew Jarvie(2016)
nae reason. Think they enjoy sticking those tags on the bins nowada(2017)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
ae "screw your courage to the sticking point." A tried oot ma first
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
onie attention tae Wee Shooie sticking up the notices.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
hat makes you qualified about sticking to the law - are you mr perf (2020) twitter link

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Jings, the Liberal Democrats 'sticking it tae ye' is akin tae being (2020)