A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

lying Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8 6.6 16.5 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences2613 11 1 0 1 0
Number of authors19 9 8 1 1

Occurrences of lying in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
There wis the dug lying sprawled on page 9

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ones, who with Cameron, were lying on page 48

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Dictionary - "a piece of low-lying ground, usually by a river".
1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
tae walk in the field. I wis lying in bed, looking oot the winda
oot it now when he’s drunk, lying on the flair like he wants ta
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
rowting on the loan, the hay lying in the swathe, the kirn to ki
trings, an your master's wark lying at the wa! An yet ye will set
2 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
fund but there wis a deid dug lying next tae the deceased. The sp
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
ldnae very weel jist leave it lying there fur some weirdo tae nab
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e worse than death, and he is lying there with a bad abdominal in
1 matches

@_Erinboyle_ tweeted
@LK95_ @CelticFC Yer no lying?????? (2020) twitter link

@jack_capener tweeted
@MrMalky She cannae have been lying about the self harm mate. Acc(2018) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@McBookie this lying behind a wall is the funniest (2021) twitter link

Doric

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
ye'r lying ere, completely bare. on page 37

1 matches

Harvey, Lewis Crash, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
e auld wifie wi the stick wis lying in the middle o the road shou
1 matches

Bowie, Tyler Stookie, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
airm. Ma messages were still lying a ower the raod. Am damn sure
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
t, up towards the man. He’s lying on his front, completely pass
pill bottles and bashed cans lying aboot the place. I look up an
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
m. But it sounded so far awa. Lying as he wiz in a big shell crat
1 matches

Irvine, Owen Eldritch Story, (The Gaudie 2018) Doric - Banff, weans
pentagram painted far he wiz lying. He coughed an bluid spewed f
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
atabase. It means The moon is lying at a slant. Mony thanks tae t(2015) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
crisp packets appeared again lying aboot jist minks(2020) search twitter
alfordbrad I hiv a compressor lying here arrived smashed up oil r(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
far ye've got yon widen boats lying aboot is far I used tae hae a(2018) search twitter

Orkney

Hollinrake, Fran Flett Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
And fund the princess lying there, bonny as a flooer in v
1 matches

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
@Linsey_xo a wasni lying last night linsey #yak(2012) search twitter