A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'attemptin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
attemptinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of attemptin in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
n the boays puss as if he wis attemptin tae hypnotise him. on page 43
ws oaff. Bein loud, wide, and attemptin tae intimidate folk. A shinin on page 169

2 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
s kind o difficult when ye're attemptin tae fit size ten feet intae S on page 20

1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
mah feet in, under th' duvet, attemptin tae cover mah body fae th' in
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
t him wae an adrenaline rush. Attemptin tae rock back and forth in th
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Attemptin tae get up, ah collapse again
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e maist ay them.’ Tam sais, attemptin tae sound sincere but really,
1 matches

General Central

Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
staundart. As a result, fowk attemptin tae screive i Scots can spell
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
attemptin tae disguise a tongue waikene on page 35

1 matches

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