A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

letting Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 4.1 6 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences148 4 2 0 0 0
Number of authors10 6 3 1

Occurrences of letting in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
a deid _ fish. Ah hink aboot letting the wee cunt win but there's on page 13
ut. Now, if you wouldn't mind letting me get ready. ° on page 27

2 matches

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
A. wisnae letting him sell ma dug. "Yer no havi on page 41

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
e me, but this boy’s no fir letting me by wae oot sayin his piece
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Um ah fuck letting go! Get a haud ay that bastar
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ks at the windae ay the club, letting the sun’s rays bathe us in
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
s ain thighs atween mine, and letting his thigh brush ower ma bulge
1 matches

@MizLiot tweeted
@lokiscottishrap Wid ye mind letting him ken that accusing Scottis (2021) twitter link

Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
n trying to sneak out without letting anyone know. There’s a smal
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
le fact is these players keep letting themselves and the club doon (2022) twitter link
y questioned his approach tae letting players ken they are leaving, (2022) twitter link

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
dice sometime once they start letting us go to games again. ??(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Flett, Alison Harbour, (Scottish Poetry Library 2004) Orkney, poetry
letting go
letting go
2 matches

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