A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

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Use in varieties of Scots

promising Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1 1.5 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences52 1 1 0 1 0
Number of authors4 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of promising in Corpus

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Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
FA 3rd time lucky - forecast promising (2020) twitter link
2 night and the weekend looks promising - bring it oan - time for s (2020) twitter link

Doric

@beast_afc tweeted
fellow Scot, Turnbull is a v promising talent. A club level cm partn(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2017) Orkney
sed is. Anither's nephew kept promising tae visit her an didna she wi

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
Muzz_G #oooosh dizni sound to promising for me.(2013) search twitter