A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'reaching'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
reachingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.655
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
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)
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 reaching in Corpus

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Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
n between leaving his gob and reaching uptae his pal’s ears. ‘It
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
ns his hands ower ma, almaist reaching doon tae ma erse, but bringin
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
is ever diminishin, the hedge reaching oot through the air oan each
1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
wi oot divisions that prevent reaching the goal.(2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Now reaching fur the sky on page 22

1 matches

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