A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

approaching Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1.5 3 0 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences73 2 0 0 2 0
Number of authors5 2 2 1

Occurrences of approaching in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
course and her penchance for approaching complete strangers saying gim
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
gied me a sair erse. Now fast approaching the start of my seventh decad
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
ts.... imagine being her son, approaching adulthood, listening tae her (2022) twitter link

Doric

Thain, Gianna Far Shaddas Lurk, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
Far some ca’ hame. Approaching a rock, far she’d comb her
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
e bow. Aa believed tae signal approaching storms. Fae: Scots Thesaurus, (2021) twitter link

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Approaching wi' their distant call on page 38
Approaching storm clouds sin' forgot on page 46

2 matches

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