A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

starting Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12.9 11.6 23.9 0 5.8 20.7 0
Number of occurrences4223 16 0 1 2 0
Number of authors22 13 7 1 1

Occurrences of starting in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
im something once when he was starting out. Everything on page 18

1 matches

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
A got tae the starting line and some of the boys wer on page 39

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"I know a lot of you are just starting out on your writing career," on page 52

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
She told me she's thinking of starting a creative writing lunch club on page 40

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
The warmth o the sun wis starting tae ease off a bit as we deci
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ere the whole process is just starting,” sayed the Pandit. “I’
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
her hand oan ma thigh, ah’m starting to feel a wee bit like his pr
a pants still cum-stained and starting to harden a wee bit, and Sick
2 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ing less tory aggressive, I'm starting tae think you secretly want i(2020) search twitter
@webcomradio I'm starting tae like listening to trashca(2020) search twitter

@g_hibby tweeted
r couple o' bags done Allie.. Starting tae take shape.. Always a goo (2022) twitter link
@AwTroon I was starting tae lose my hair A, and one n (2023) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
nother year an it's only just starting! @MattRichardson3 enjoy! Hugg(2015) search twitter

@bigandymccoll tweeted
, ground-down over centuries. Starting with a nameplate change: the (2022) twitter link
hid behind that like it was a starting pistol. She stymied @MartinJK (2022) twitter link

@weenell3 tweeted
ht. I've another chesty cough starting and needed tae heat the hoose (2022) twitter link
ing Sandra ???????? girls are starting tae stir noo ?? (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
1925 scottish leagues 1 and 2 starting this weekend - under the pro (2021) twitter link
amateur football league also starting too - and everyone else in t (2020) twitter link
@AmmyFitbaNews good stuff - starting to work my way through all th (2021) twitter link
junior fitbaw in west lothian starting 2 morro in tier 4 - and no a (2020) twitter link
t scottish womens football is starting again this weekend - seems t (2021) twitter link

Doric

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
nly land he’s ever kent and starting aa owre again?
ed a fair bit and the sun’s starting to brak through the cloud –
2 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
ae campaign as such until the starting pistol is fired, I widnae und (2022) twitter link
was McKenna introduced to the starting 11 afore it was absolutely ne (2022) twitter link
@HeavenlyDancer2 @AberdeenFC Starting tae tak shape ?? (2022) twitter link
@AbzPodcast @tchocky83 In the starting 11 , fah definitely winna be (2022) twitter link
slightly surprised he’s nae starting tae be honest, but, for me, o (2022) twitter link
and 3 other occurrences.

@cligeey tweeted
watching Arrow 8 seasons jist starting the journey here(2020) search twitter

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
e years, but now it’s slowly starting to be used for much mair in i(2020) search twitter
ding not to notice that it’s starting to spit with rain... #cullen (2020) search twitter

@Franwella tweeted
@LouiseNicol1 jist starting or finishin?(2012) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ittie Bar! Deen takeaways noo starting fae the morn! May try tae sne(2020) search twitter

@McGoo1888 tweeted
me for public intoxicating ah starting singing the rebs and they tri (2021) twitter link

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
IScreamDice @BigCommerce I’m starting to get excited aboot da dice (2019) twitter link

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
Starting in 25 mins, please register, (2020) twitter link
Starting in a 1/2 hr, please register, (2020) twitter link