A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

hunting Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 2.6 4.5 0 5.8 20.7 0
Number of occurrences115 3 0 1 2 0
Number of authors11 5 3 1 2

Occurrences of hunting in Corpus

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Central

Le Marie, Nicole nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Last Day At East Wemyss, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, poetry
e ye will the end itself, not hunting fossils on page 87

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Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
rd a saft hoot - a houlet - hunting efter mice, nae dout. It mind on page 17

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McClelland, Ben Chicagof Island, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
eir wife and maither et hame. Hunting wis in their blood, it pumped
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Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
come obsolete with the ban on hunting with dogs in Scotland. Of cou
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@g_hibby tweeted
etting tae the point of going hunting to see what yer peeps are up (2023) twitter link

Doric

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
les noo. The best place to go hunting is aboot quarter o a mile doo
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Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
icers packed up their pre-war hunting rifles and the ither troops w
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@cligeey tweeted
Could get used ti trophy hunting(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Watt, Valerie A daander trowe Michaelswood, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
Bear and his family are away hunting for food,” she knappit aff
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Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
nd look efter rudkin the morn hunting. Dini want him falling off ag(2012) search twitter

@StuartPoet tweeted
re of tales. Today, the child-hunting capercaillie of Braemar! And (2020) search twitter