A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

arguing Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences65 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of arguing in Corpus

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Central

Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
e, an saicondly, tae hear her arguing the case for a Scots Language
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
r exemple ’He’s surely no arguing that…’ or ‘I’m no sur
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
There wis nae point arguing wi’ him. A’d seen whit ma
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
en (nae other choice) and was arguing we had tae change the driver (2022) twitter link

@LowEndJardo tweeted
a Sunday morning n cunts are arguing the politics ae fuckin nukes (2021) twitter link

Doric

@daleser23 tweeted
ossAndrew7 cana even be arsed arguing. Just watch sky sports news a(2013) search twitter