A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

closing Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 2 4.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences84 3 1 0 0 0
Number of authors8 4 3 1

Occurrences of closing in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
OUND OF OVEN DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING) on page 61

1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
t wis aboot 2a.m., long efter closing, but when Ali had stayed in t
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e fanny along the canal efter closing time, wallop, splash, end of
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nough is enough - guys after closing time get out on the streets a (2020) twitter link

Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
d ging intae a pub jist afore closing time fin aa bugger wiz gettin
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
flat under the loons bogs at closing time - see ye there (2022) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
e Bar decides that she is nae closing until fan she says, fit it is(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Thir cowld and damp and thir closing in on me like the folk whar p on page 20

1 matches

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