A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

finding Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 4.1 4.5 0 11.6 31 0
Number of occurrences168 3 0 2 3 0
Number of authors16 8 3 2 3

Occurrences of finding in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
uid actis hes bene maid anent finding of lawborrow for preservation on page 23

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
nd sleept upon a hillock, and finding hirselfe transported to anoth
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Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
my own ideas on the subject, finding it very troublesome to retain
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Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e likes o Facebook wis ok for finding oot whit the bad guys were up
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Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
, a bit shy o’ forty, still finding it hard tae talk aboot when a
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@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
tain it, dinnae blame me. I'm finding it hard to do it with this on(2020) search twitter

@jax6754 tweeted
e tae move forward and slowly finding ma #positivementalattitude xx(2015) search twitter

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ur closest kin. And now we're finding some good guys blaming politi (2022) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Efter finding them tae be so
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@beast_afc tweeted
thin you say taks awa fae him finding his level.(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Bert's been finding it lonely at the bar himself (2016) search twitter

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
g. But how would you go about finding her?" on page 35

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@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Vh28EGID reading this was lik finding oot Santy wisna real ??(2017) search twitter

Southern

The Westender Pipin for the Young Yins, (The Hawick Paper 2008) Southern, newspaper
e it's no juist a question o' finding a hall, its mair findin' time
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@jamie_ginger tweeted
ooky looky on holiday wull be finding it hard this time o year. Wal(2020) search twitter

@StuartPoet tweeted
et rid of anything! I'm still finding bits and bobs of unfinished o(2020) search twitter

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