A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'debating'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
debatingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.244
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 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 debating in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
yer heed affa brick wall than debating a NO Surrrrendurrrr unionist(2020)

General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
u_Innes fit u go for bleu? Im debating gan for ane(2013)

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
re, three muppets in the pub, debating for all the world as we had t
1 matches

General Central

@rattlecans tweeted
m no damn well interested in *debating* the bullshit that drips oot (2022) twitter link