A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

talking Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words17.8 22.3 12.8 19.9 5.8 10.9 4.4
Number of occurrences5542 8 2 1 1 1
Number of authors37 26 6 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of talking in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
Och, ah'm talking a right load ae rubbish!" on page 17
moved oan while he wis still talking, an the Dormoose follit him: on page 73
looked at Alice, who she wis talking tae. on page 80

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McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2003 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'I don't know what you're talking about. Now, if you wouldn't m on page 27

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Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
u think you'll get a good job talking like that?' on page 36

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MacKinnon, Ann Lallans 70 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
awbody talking at aince, on page 61

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
d and demented. "We are still talking about the dog, right?" he whi on page 161

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Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
an this man cam up an started talking tae thim. Meanwhile, back at on page 76

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Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
Zander. Do me a favour. Stop talking. Your accent is embarrassing. on page 4

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Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
up straight, hands folded, no talking, eyes front while I write on on page 120

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Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
o blawhards that widnae stoap talking aboot hoo they won the war. B on page 43
before long the big folk wir talking again. Daphne wis complainin on page 44
'We wir jist staunin here talking,' says Kevin tae es mammy. on page 45
Even folk as young as us wir talking aboot it. It wis as if Ingrid on page 46

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Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ans continued. As always when talking to Nichols, he wiz hoping tha
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Women Talking Dirty - Isla Dewar
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Macdonald, Amy Evelynn and Peter, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
ghout that day. Evelynn loved talking. She’d talk for ages, aboot
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Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
It's awfa funny talking tae ye like this - me doin'
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Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
did maist days. “Sometimes talking to a friend, listening to mus
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Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Talking o fish we did hae the ubiquit
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Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ep this in mind when they are talking tae me, ye’d be surprised h
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
mt Balvinder. “What are you talking about?”
ff an a lauch. “It’s like talking to a steam engine enthusiast
“And you say everybody is talking about this?” “Oh, I don
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
is Neducation Guide you'll be talking in the style of Glasgow's fin
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Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
he rug till they’d finished talking. When they did, ma faither sa
1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
is is Bah-yerr Myoonick we're talking about, ken. This is Kahn. Pap
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@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
CScotlandNews Aye it wis Mets talking shite.(2020) search twitter
@Blazespage Get talking tae @AlynSmith he wants this (2020) search twitter

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@DorisVulva Noo yir talking ! ??(2020) search twitter
@kath_stirling Now yir talking ????????(2020) search twitter
p1905 I carry one, but we’re talking aw day here.(2020) search twitter

@gordimhor1 tweeted
nnerstaund her because she is talking pish(2020) search twitter

@jack_capener tweeted
Mibbies it's the whisky talking, but something about hearing (2018) search twitter

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
sequent Republics. We are not talking a monarchy in power under the(2020) search twitter
ot Moral Relativism? I may be talking, thinking bunkum.(2020) search twitter

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
oad. Zat thae beasties ye wir talking aboot yistirday Boab? Stick t(2020) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
han a multi used condom wae a talking spunk bubble(2020) search twitter
r united than ever Boris. Yer talking shite. Again. https://t.co/v4(2020) search twitter

@LowEndJardo tweeted
I’ve seen a lot ae folk talking aboot adhd and I’m going thr (2021) twitter link

@MizLiot tweeted
rrl @ROSAZAMBONINI @AlbaParty Talking frae experience are ye? (2021) twitter link

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I telt ye aa aboot Brian, i'talking dog on page 183

1 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 63 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
Scottish Writers Talking 2: In Interview, edited by Is
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Cara, Dillon, Ami and Travis Bogle Adventure, (Scots Hoose 2017) Doric, weans
meet the bogle they met a wee talking dug cried Snawflake wha asked
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@72redz1903 tweeted
@AbzPodcast Talking Ramirez, I wis up in Buckie y (2022) twitter link
complex because we are still talking about a single state. I agree (2021) twitter link
lism. Aye, unlikely if we’re talking aboot the collective ownershi (2020) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
@ChelZReese Waznae talking aboot covid morticia(2020) search twitter

@McGoo1888 tweeted
@GrahamSpiers @TimesSport Ahm talking aboot the last 2 year leagues (2021) twitter link

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
strange things. That folk are talking." "Aye weel," he says, "fock on page 125

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@peediepuss tweeted
prowlandson Aye, and he wisno talking about hingin oot claes!(2020) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
-in: spaekin 'speaking, talking' on page 44

1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ithoot doot, frichtent himsel talking aboot the
1 matches

Ulster

BardOfMilebush Untitled poem, (Reddit 2017) Ulster, poetry
Ulster, talk the Scotch way o talking
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