A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example ablow

The word 'parking'

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings -

Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
parkingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1106
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 parking 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.

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
l Cornhill Hospital wi spleet parking restrictions is eneuch tae dr(2015)
nk aat scrapping the free oor parking in #Aberdeenshire car parks i(2019)
This loon has made his ain #parking bay an ah'll anely be twaa mi(2019)

General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
urinho moaning aboot west ham parking the bus. Fuckin hypocrite(2014)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
d doon the eicc - nae decent parking (2021) twitter link
part o a protest against the parking lot - a wis overwhelmed wae (2020) twitter link
l it oot the car park cos the parking warden appeared cos ave never (2021) twitter link

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Oor SNP MP Neil Gray got oor 'parking charge' cancelled in full. Na(2020)

South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
ck's traffic warden, would be parking his brogues up a few erses if(2020)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
but a goodie), and so on. Or parking the car in a small space, "th(2020)