A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'forgetting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
forgettingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.654
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 forgetting in Corpus

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(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ty strikes a might add and no forgetting a top drawer performance from (2021) twitter link

Ayrshire

Macdonald, Amy Evelynn and Peter, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
, tae the point where she wis forgetting where she wis and even who sh
wo oors. Ah race oot the bar, forgetting tae even say goodbye. Aw that
2 matches

General Central

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
i my daft story aboot aliens, forgetting that it wis him that brought
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
@dgplacenames No forgetting the most famous - Knockshinn(2020)