A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

messing Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1 3 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences62 2 1 0 0 1
Number of authors6 2 2 1 1

Occurrences of messing in Corpus

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Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ist fk the games going around messing with it, they can wait indy a(2020) search twitter

@g_hibby tweeted
Right peeps.. Naw messing aboot here.. Aye it's dry, bu (2023) twitter link

Doric

Fowler, Ross Sunday Fitba wi ma Faither, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
the fitba aroond the gairden messing aboot.
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
s a o'er them noo but was nae messing wee this lad as Russian, 6ft (2016) search twitter

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
king, no drinking and no more messing aboot, Aye I'll be a shoe-in (2020) search twitter

Ulster

Mc Donnell, John Joogins, (no publisher recorded 2020) Ulster, prose
Messing aboot a managed tae knock owe
1 matches

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