A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'letting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lettingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.41410
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
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 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 27.1 5 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 letting in Corpus

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Orkney

Flett, Alison Harbour, (Scottish Poetry Library 2004) Orkney, poetry
letting go
letting go
2 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
n trying to sneak out without letting anyone know. There’s a smal
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
le fact is these players keep letting themselves and the club doon (2022) twitter link
y questioned his approach tae letting players ken they are leaving, (2022) twitter link

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
dice sometime once they start letting us go to games again. ??(2020)

West Central

@MizLiot tweeted
@lokiscottishrap Wid ye mind letting him ken that accusing Scottis (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
s ain thighs atween mine, and letting his thigh brush ower ma bulge
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
a deid _ fish. Ah hink aboot letting the wee cunt win but there's on page 13
ut. Now, if you wouldn't mind letting me get ready. ° on page 27

2 matches

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
A. wisnae letting him sell ma dug. "Yer no havi on page 41

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Um ah fuck letting go! Get a haud ay that bastar
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ks at the windae ay the club, letting the sun’s rays bathe us in
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
e me, but this boy’s no fir letting me by wae oot sayin his piece
1 matches

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