A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hunting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
huntingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.41111
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 hunting in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie A daander trowe Michaelswood, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
Bear and his family are away hunting for food,” she knappit aff
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
icers packed up their pre-war hunting rifles and the ither troops w
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
les noo. The best place to go hunting is aboot quarter o a mile doo
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
Could get used ti trophy hunting(2020)

(South) East Central

Le Marie, Nicole nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Last Day At East Wemyss, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, poetry
e ye will the end itself, not hunting fossils on page 87

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
come obsolete with the ban on hunting with dogs in Scotland. Of cou
1 matches

Ayrshire

McClelland, Ben Chicagof Island, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
eir wife and maither et hame. Hunting wis in their blood, it pumped
1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
rd a saft hoot - a houlet - hunting efter mice, nae dout. It mind on page 17

1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
etting tae the point of going hunting to see what yer peeps are up (2023) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
nd look efter rudkin the morn hunting. Dini want him falling off ag(2012)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
re of tales. Today, the child-hunting capercaillie of Braemar! And (2020)