A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

holdin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.5 9 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1818 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors8 8

Occurrences of holdin 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

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
t dick, Mark Bailey, is still holdin the mobile phone tae his ear. on page 27

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
n a lack o guid arable on his holdin. Ross wis agreeable, an sae i on page 79

1 matches

Anderson, Elizabeth Lallans 59 - OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
rainch Comatee for mony ears, holdin different positions. Ower the on page 4

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
my read ma story in peace, no holdin oot much hope fur hur likin i on page 30
Ah fall asleep holdin oantae the auld Scots poem. M on page 36

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
cross around hur neck. She's holdin a large, white piece o paper on page 25
It wasnae ma fault!' ah said, holdin oot the remains o the Amazon on page 40
hur blouse. Hur haun emerges holdin a tattered scapular o the Vir on page 48
ey sat in their front gairden holdin hauns. The worst hing wis, th on page 79
make eye contact, she smirks, holdin the photie ower it. on page 81
Also on pages 114
6 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ings considered, ah’ve been holdin it together, but ah go intae
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
in’ a DVD oot the windae an holdin’ it up like a ref dishin’
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
is city. The main artery. The holdin cell.
1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
independent. An’ ah’m no holdin’ ma breath oan that yin.
1 matches

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
this time the same child wis holdin Jim’s heid in his hauns, aw
haun right through her chest holdin her hert behin her. As Carol
2 matches

DaibhidC Moa an the tynt sun, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
lenth they saw a wappin wouf, holdin a baw the girst o Moa.
1 matches

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