A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

staying Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.9 3.2 3.2 0 11.6 21.9 0
Number of occurrences126 2 0 2 2 0
Number of authors10 5 2 1 2

Occurrences of staying in Corpus

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Central

Macdonald, Amy Evelynn and Peter, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
"Ye are going tae be staying here now, but don’t worry A
1 matches

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
wi Senga aa the time she wis staying wi us. Doris couldnae believe
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
idin’; literally, ‘always staying’, but generally best owerse
1 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
eScotUnicorn @paulnewton3 I'm staying in Edin Fri night with my pal (2022) twitter link
icorn @paulnewton3 I know I'm staying in Edinburgh the Friday night (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
whats awe this about staying local? spent the day doon at (2021) twitter link

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ing ower sax ouks lockdown bi staying hame protecting the NHS https(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Aff got a lot of hope noo o' staying alive fer a lang time noo ???(2018) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
haven't done it, They're not staying/They aren't staying. on page 89

2 matches

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
t masel oot the night.nae gid staying in masel. #pintpintsbaby(2012) search twitter

@StuartPoet tweeted
kenna63 It's guid weather for staying in and catching up on the @sc(2020) search twitter