A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'returning'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
returningOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.899
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 returning in Corpus

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Shetland

Laurenson, Hannah Lisa Da Maa's Eggs, (Hands Up For Trad 2019) Shetland, prose
a, we nivver kent he widna be returning.”
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
tae his face tae quaiten him. Returning tae the British lines they ha
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
her Andrew’s helicopter’s returning or they’ve sent oot anither
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
turning intae een or Cosgrove returning and Watkins competing with Wr (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
h no sign of the amateur game returning to at least march at the earl (2021) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Stuart and Boab, wanderers returning, on page 21

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Crevasse Bars my returning,
1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
intae bonnie Edinburgh before returning home tae study! xxx ?(2015)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
Looking forward to returning to @BBCRSAfternoons with @Jan(2020)