A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'struggling'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
strugglingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.61816
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 262.1 2 2
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
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 struggling in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
s ...hits ..." I cood see her struggling ta hadd back da taers. "Hit's on page 43

1 matches

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
come in,” said a peerie elf struggling tae reck da latch. Wi his red
1 matches

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
vet fur aa dat.) Mam hed been struggling ta keep Smootie on da vet's t
1 matches

Mid Northern B

Martin, Keiron Ma Worst Nicht Oot, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
a blether and one mannie wis struggling to stan on his feet.
1 matches

@McGoo1888 tweeted
left wing...basically nice...Struggling tae understand why the popula (2022) twitter link

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
ing aboot VAR. if yir team is struggling, how wid ye ken attendances d (2022) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
@sleigh_andrew He is struggling to keep a roof ower his heid(2020)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
Holly willoughby in shorts is struggling to distract me fae Twitter th(2018)

(South) East Central

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
faking it and I literally am struggling to listen to it."
1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
the corner ae her mooth. 'T'm struggling to work out whether you're te on page 1

1 matches

General Central

@alistairdunn tweeted
@Kelseybumm we're really struggling tae finish 2nd at this rate, (2017)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
on bearers of our culture now struggling to survive and like to have t(2020)
@billykayscot struggling a bittie tae fin the mot just(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
anovi2 Ma wee lassie has been struggling for ower twa years tae pay af(2020)
esaurus Ah wid advise onybody struggling wae depression and/or anxiety(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
y low and they were genuinely struggling.(2020)

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
ross fair proud o u.a bet yir struggling #40aday #saveafortune(2012)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
orget sheep mums who might be struggling in the fields eh #farming #lo(2020)