A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'covering'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
coveringOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.966
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central
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 covering in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
iNg YoU” weel am worn a face covering at wark every day since July (2021) twitter link

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
BClamacqshow I just heard you covering our Nature Prescriptions part(2018)

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
aist o i fillum wi ma jaicket covering ma lap. ????????(2019)

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
Haggis That loon needs a face covering(2020)

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
oing to have to wear a facial covering and social distance as much a
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
s rang through the thin misty covering. on page 48

1 matches

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