A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

throwing Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2.5 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences65 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of throwing in Corpus

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Central

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
is laughing aboot. He started throwing things aboot the kitchen and on page 41

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
great sconces line the walls, throwing shadows. My Lady's jewels gli on page 3

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
u. I heard the Experiment was throwing his weight around earlier, an
ed, “there you are then: if throwing up or falling down will help
2 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
t love opening up windaes and throwing money oot them. Oh and choppi (2022) twitter link

Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
t there are still tickets for Throwing Voices - - come du, come du!)(2019) search twitter