A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

staring Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3.1 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences96 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 2

Occurrences of staring in Corpus

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Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
roared. People were smiling. Staring. Never blinking. The pulse o
t! And their een sockets were staring richt at me...
d their heids tae where I wis staring and I quickly picked up a dec
3 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tae ma pipe. Tam sits quietly staring oot the windae tae the green
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
bit, but ah jist stood there, staring. Mesmerised that somethin lik
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
p at ‘is face, the cunt’s staring intensely at me. Ah ken that
1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
sat at her wee roll top desk staring intae nithing. At one side o
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ird gave a groan and sat doon staring at the paintin as if he’d n
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
tae dee bit sit in the hoose staring across the room at her indoor(2020) search twitter

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