A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'claiming'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
claimingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.176
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 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of claiming in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
ae some muppet of your parish claiming this was all about indescreti (2020) twitter link
iberdeen? I ken plinty o folk claiming tae be ‘loyal’ in the coast (2020) twitter link

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
th East speakers are possibly claiming 'ken' as a shortcut for sayin(2020)

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
At least he's nae claiming to be Scottish. Thankful for (2023) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
pside - who are the scammers claiming to be from amazon that are ph (2020) twitter link

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt La Le La Le La Iron Mountain, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
shield authority by claiming
1 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
denying the 'traditional' and claiming the 'modern' (1996: 22-23). on page 56

1 matches

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