A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'arguing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
arguingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.966
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of arguing in Corpus

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General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
ossAndrew7 cana even be arsed arguing. Just watch sky sports news a(2013)

West Central

Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
e, an saicondly, tae hear her arguing the case for a Scots Language
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
r exemple ’He’s surely no arguing that…’ or ‘I’m no sur
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
en (nae other choice) and was arguing we had tae change the driver (2022) twitter link

@LowEndJardo tweeted
a Sunday morning n cunts are arguing the politics ae fuckin nukes (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
There wis nae point arguing wi’ him. A’d seen whit ma
1 matches

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