A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

opening Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.8 4.8 9.6 0 11.6 10.9 0
Number of occurrences189 6 0 2 1 0
Number of authors15 9 3 2 1

Occurrences of opening in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
nae opening or shuttin times, on page 72

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McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
e pick aff the wee eye at the opening, right? Then stab it intae th on page 1

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
(SOUND OF OVEN DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING) on page 61

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
‘A Man’s a Man’ at the opening ceremony.
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Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ly and rolled ontae his back, opening yin ee tae check oot whit the
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
dentifying Rob Fairnie in his opening sentence, he then refers to h
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@weenell3 tweeted
@DavyGavin1 They just love opening up windaes and throwing money (2022) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
0 new vaccination centres are opening in Scotland as a result of th(2021) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
fBeathAF @Cowden81 was at the opening ceremony wae ma faither (2020) twitter link

Doric

Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ullery tae pit the kettle on. Opening the door o the surgery faa sh
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
ut Aberdonian army nurse Read opening pages free at https://t.co/9T(2016) search twitter
dist anyone ken i' a latchie opening garage fit sells floeers! htt(2017) search twitter
t tae the gairdening shoppies opening seen? #garden #gardening http(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ere anybody fae Fittie at yer opening night apart fae Bopper? As se(2018) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ndLibrary : Da Flooer Park is opening too!! Da Dump and da Park, wh(2020) search twitter

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
enplay film festival, and the opening of the Stoal filmpoetry exhib(2019) search twitter

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
, A kan reca’ the auld Kirk opening is ae SYHA Hostel on 22/06/19
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