Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'pulling'

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Use in varieties of Scots

pulling	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.7	12	12
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	10.9	2	2
AYR - Ayrshire	13.1	1	1
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	4
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	1
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of pulling in Corpus

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General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
junction n shouts At was like pulling teeth the day boys(2020)

@glenlivetloon tweeted
titution was ground breaking..pulling together people fae all walks(2013)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
bdfm sports show pulling out all the stops 2 morro by (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
an Evans wiz his name, ahm no pulling yer leg. His maw wiz committe
1 matches

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
o’ fun wi this,’ he says, pulling a newspaper fae his polly bag
1 matches

Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
or “redistribution” or “pulling and sharing” – na na, the
1 matches

Ayrshire

Macdonald, Amy Evelynn and Peter, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
ae leave her there. As Ah was pulling oot the entrance, Ah could se
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ly traumatised, unconsciously pulling hur hair wi one hand and biti on page 26

1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
ndo quick breath while he wis pulling at the lead, heading for this
1 matches

McNulty, Victoria Hame, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
Pulling him back. Trapped.
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
Pulling a late nicht study session! h(2015)

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
no game ti the races the day.pulling the bits back on for the lind(2012)