A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

returning Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.9 2.1 4.8 0 5.8 10.9 0
Number of occurrences94 3 0 1 1 0
Number of authors9 4 3 1 1

Occurrences of returning in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Stuart and Boab, wanderers returning, on page 21

1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Crevasse Bars my returning,
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
intae bonnie Edinburgh before returning home tae study! xxx ?(2015) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
h no sign of the amateur game returning to at least march at the earl (2021) twitter link

Doric

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
her Andrew’s helicopter’s returning or they’ve sent oot anither
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
tae his face tae quaiten him. Returning tae the British lines they ha
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
turning intae een or Cosgrove returning and Watkins competing with Wr (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Laurenson, Hannah Lisa Da Maa's Eggs, (Hands Up For Trad 2019) Shetland, prose
a, we nivver kent he widna be returning.”
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
Looking forward to returning to @BBCRSAfternoons with @Jan(2020) search twitter