A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

fading Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1 1.5 0 0 31 4.4
Number of occurrences72 1 0 0 3 1
Number of authors5 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of fading in Corpus

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Central

Le Marie, Nicole nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Last Day At East Wemyss, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, poetry
drizzle fading tae greying waves, a tae aliv on page 87

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
r maniacal whoopin and yippin fading intae the distance.
1 matches

Doric

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d Cross maet parcels – ah’m fading awa an ah’m getting affa thi(2018) search twitter

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
But noo in Autumn's fading licht on page 8
Extends its fading licht on page 15
Sweet life, a fading floo'er on page 16

3 matches

Ulster

Hanna, Wendy Gaitherin’ Purdas!, (Facebook - Schomberg Society 2020) Ulster, poetry
Fading sun, a yarn to tell,
1 matches

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