A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sailing Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1 0 0 11.6 0 8.9
Number of occurrences62 0 0 2 0 2
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of sailing in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
o a veage atween warlds in a sailing ship til a warld that wis in
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
the full moon, a full-rigged sailing ship, and a pregnant woman. M
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
lik a scene fae da Shining ! Sailing on da MVHrossey #knockengorro(2016) search twitter
Sailing aroond Foula. I am a lucky la(2013) search twitter

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
ee me and the Young Offenders sailing into thon fragrant Harbour, w(2019) search twitter
ee me and the Young Offenders sailing into thon fragrant Harbour, w(2019) search twitter