A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

floating Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2.6 6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences95 4 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 2 4

Occurrences of floating in Corpus

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Central

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
ir eyes sewn shut: still, but floating. I reached tae touch them, an
couldnae reach him coz I wis floating, I wis suspended. I wis still
is suspended. I wis still and floating, like in water. And the thing
uld see this wee dust in dots floating above the field, falling doon
4 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
els are a bit too weighty for floating shelves... (2023) twitter link

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Floating as they mak their wie ower i' on page 194

1 matches

Thain, Gianna Far Shaddas Lurk, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
Loosome lang locks floating effortlessly ahin ih’ bonni
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
ee specks high up in the sky, floating aboot on their helicopters as
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
ic evidence you got for this? Floating support? Foo mony were at the (2022) twitter link

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