A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'leaving'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
leavingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82624
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 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 4
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of leaving in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
you want to get in touch. I'm leaving on the 12.30 plane on Friday. on page 24

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ore incident and ban them fae leaving the school at dinner break.(2020)

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ld chap!" he left the office, leaving the Chief Constable contempla
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
. It means interfering or not leaving something alone. Mony thanks (2014)
Naughty Jack Frost leaving me a phallus symbol under ma (2019)

Mid Northern B

Harvey, Lewis Crash, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
Leaving ma hoose to go to skweel it w
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
an in his seventies get oot o leaving ahin the only land he’s eve
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
letting players ken they are leaving, understandably so you could (2022) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
mory Ye remembered fan in but leaving wis hazy(2020)

@daleser23 tweeted
lumC19 aye holiday gan arite. Leaving for hame imorn tho. Haha ana (2013)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
. Fit went wrang? We're happy leaving the bar AM(2016)
Leaving my hoose windows open fer 5 m(2018)

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
on his leaving Harrow
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Leaving Glinda and the Munchkins faur
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
wrenched his haun up and awa, leaving behind a trail ae red gristle
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ta juniors n bathgate thistle leaving the juniors to go eos - grea (2021) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Leaving behin aa them that we hae ken on page 15

1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
heir power in the eon between leaving his gob and reaching uptae hi
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e loans found in Scots ([…] leaving aside Caithness and the North
1 matches

Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
a hot day and a felt bad fir leaving her oot there wioot anything on page 39

1 matches

Ayrshire

Macdonald, Amy Evelynn and Peter, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
. Ah don’t feel comfortable leaving her in the hoose by hersel an
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
the elevator it's as if he's leaving one world and entering anothe on page 14

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
"They're all leaving in the morn, at first licht." on page 3

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Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
ays at Barry Schuil were over leaving me wi fond memories o my chum on page 120

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Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
ld feel them boring intae me, leaving tiny marks; I can see them no
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
s "Whar'r ye stappin?" - fur leaving's lea'in. on page 37

1 matches

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