Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sinking	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	1.6	1.5	1.5	9.9	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	5	3	1	1	0	0	0
Number of authors	5	3	1	1

Occurrences of sinking in Corpus

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Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
t pint (and yours) are flatly sinking on page 60

1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
ter leather and inner rubber, sinking doon the spike wae a gentle h
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
yes1108 exactly m8 - bbc now sinking faster than the titanic - bo (2020) twitter link

Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Banff Hospital an gid in wi a sinking feelin intae her guts. The fi
1 matches

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Fingers numbing wae the sinking sun on page 26

1 matches