A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

becoming Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2.6 4.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences95 3 0 1 0 0
Number of authors8 5 2 1

Occurrences of becoming in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
n wis nou weel on his wey tae becoming a journeyman stanemason himse on page 75

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
A classic case of the hunter becoming the hunted.' on page 47

1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
@murdo_fraser @scotgov You're becoming less tory aggressive, I'm sta(2020) search twitter

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ife but it didnae stop me fae becoming a principal teacher for ower (2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
again a take your points - becoming clearer now (2020) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
reflected in these marches is becoming a kind o cos play cliche. I p (2022) twitter link
I think you are unfortunately becoming a litmus test for U.K. attitu (2020) twitter link

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
led ony ambitions I had aboot becoming the new ‘Brian Cox’ of ling(2020) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
A good thing today was becoming an 'aunty' to the newest memb(2014) search twitter