A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'cleaning'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cleaningOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.41411
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 cleaning in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
in the scullery deein general cleaning and help prepare the vegetabl
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Fa ran oot i' cleaning solution an watter! http://t.(2014)
eather duster oot an div some cleaning the mockit clarty wifie! http(2015)

Mid Northern B

Robson, Euan Peelie wally, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
ppit back tae git back tae ma cleaning fan a heard a crunch under ma
1 matches

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs The ‘Naked Cleaners’ idea is appalling. It’s sexist, demeaning, and at £80 an hour, steep, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
read a news story aboot a new cleaning firm doon in Edinburgh fit su
ill attest, I am nae a fan of cleaning my ain hoose, never mind ithe
2 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
Porteous best Mak a gid job o cleaning consi's boots the day. Lot ta(2020)

@cligeey tweeted
@FinHall Get a job cleaning oot spots ina(2020)
Wright cleaning oot Duffy again(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
me. Deen washing, hoovering & cleaning as wife doon in dumps. Will s(2017)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
for a night out. And not for cleaning houses." on page 84

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
hink? Reckon you could handle cleaning up blood and all sorts of oth on page 104

1 matches

General Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
af, genuinely spent mair time cleaning this place than anything else(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
The cleaning crew huv opened ma curtains f(2020)