A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

flying Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 2.7 1.6 19.9 5.8 10.9 4.4
Number of occurrences115 1 2 1 1 1
Number of authors10 4 1 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of flying in Corpus

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Central

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - fower poems bi John Waddell, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Thochts o a Flying Snail on page 62

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
r, appearing in the North and flying rapidly towards the Earth.
a fiery Dragon was seen flying near the Earth, and vomiting
2 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
' blue sky.... :) Also a high flying jet heading for the Atlantic (2023) twitter link

@bigandymccoll tweeted
lyering constantly. Howsabout Flying Flyerers. ?? I repeat, Alex i (2022) twitter link

Doric

Kerr, Oliwia, Sarah and Amber Fiona and the Ring, (Scots Hoose 2017) Doric, weans
to pass her spelling test wi flying colours. However, a laddie na
1 matches

Orkney

Brown, Moyra Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
n 'Arabian Nights' carpet for flying through the air. on page 29

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
chicks fae Norway, reared to flying and then released(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
od knows what rumours will be flying round!" on page 21

1 matches

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
.they wont can keep up wi the flying ginger. #runfatboyrun(2012) search twitter

Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
dle of it all, bits of rabbit flying everywhere. Flo was frantical (2021) twitter link