Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'opening'

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Use in varieties of Scots

opening	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.6	18	15
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	13.1	4	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	10.2	4	4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	4	3	3
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 opening in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ndLibrary : Da Flooer Park is opening too!! Da Dump and da Park, wh(2020)

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
enplay film festival, and the opening of the Stoal filmpoetry exhib(2019)

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ullery tae pit the kettle on. Opening the door o the surgery faa sh
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
ut Aberdonian army nurse Read opening pages free at https://t.co/9T(2016)
dist anyone ken i' a latchie opening garage fit sells floeers! htt(2017)
t tae the gairdening shoppies opening seen? #garden #gardening http(2020)

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ere anybody fae Fittie at yer opening night apart fae Bopper? As se(2018)

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
(SOUND OF OVEN DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING) on page 61

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Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ly and rolled ontae his back, opening yin ee tae check oot whit the
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
dentifying Rob Fairnie in his opening sentence, he then refers to h
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
fBeathAF @Cowden81 was at the opening ceremony wae ma faither (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
e pick aff the wee eye at the opening, right? Then stab it intae th on page 1

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General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
‘A Man’s a Man’ at the opening ceremony.
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@weenell3 tweeted
@DavyGavin1 They just love opening up windaes and throwing money (2022) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
0 new vaccination centres are opening in Scotland as a result of th(2021)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
, A kan reca’ the auld Kirk opening is ae SYHA Hostel on 22/06/19
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South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
nae opening or shuttin times, on page 72

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