A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

using Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10.9 9.8 15.1 0 17.4 31 0
Number of occurrences3519 10 0 3 3 0
Number of authors25 15 6 3 1

Occurrences of using 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

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
inging it intae some machine, using a big bucket. Fuckin ten hour on page 60

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
layout, and formatting. Since using plain English makes the encyc on page 9

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
his wee picnic table. He wiz using some massive fucker of an old
1 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
cused, specific accuracy when using particular Scots words to mak
1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
multaneously undermined it by using an anglified spelling and gra
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
any times afore, when we’re using his belt to shoot up, but thi
1 matches

@gordimhor1 tweeted
rpaddy @JimSpenceSport Are ye using tacketie beets tae tak a tell(2020) search twitter

@jax6754 tweeted
hink you should go again only using one hand.? Much mare fun in m(2015) search twitter
ar!?? Hope he disnae mind you using awe or some o his pocket mone(2015) search twitter

@IshbelMcF tweeted
@joforjoanne @AllusionistShow Using language - ‘fluently’ or w(2019) search twitter
itated by SE English speakers using the same sound the English us(2018) search twitter

@RickHJohnston tweeted
nto Holyrood by the back door using a Unionist-designed PR system (2023) twitter link

@OliphantWullie tweeted
plies and folk accusing me of using a lingua franca that would no (2022) twitter link

@bigandymccoll tweeted
votes would count - I'd been using it as provenance ?? (2022) twitter link
appened here Saorse - you're using clear-thinking and logic. The (2022) twitter link

@rattlecans tweeted
Scottish politicians had quit using English ports tae save them t (2022) twitter link

@MizLiot tweeted
s name, it’s fine. If ye’re using it whilst trying tae condesce (2021) twitter link
60s and is confused by people using the term ‘hen’. (2021) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@VFSportsPix spurs using the second hauf as a trainin (2020) twitter link

Doric

Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
yi hink yi cin git let aff we using ma clothes n ah ma makeup. Th
world! Different if it was yi using hers, she’d defiantly git p
2 matches

Harvey, Lewis Crash, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
in her heid off at me for nae using her crossing. As usual a jist
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
haan tae haan, rifle butts or using entrenchin tools in a vicious
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
r in her life imagined hersel using that knowledge o the Black Ai
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
u’re referring to but we are using these games much like pre sea (2020) twitter link

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
e. Jist look at es ah e' noo. Using Twitter tae spik e' Doric. So(2019) search twitter
csJ @BBCArchive We were still using the halfpence piece up until (2020) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ids up Bin of Cullen. I'll be using bin as a Sco (2020) twitter link
nt wi list o Scots wirdies - using Snapchat. Topper! https://t.c (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
" caad "Guddicks" fae da sand using "hjuks"(hooks).

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
a Magnus an Freya's hoose, an using da cat flap at Nicol an Ingri
1 matches

@HazelTindall tweeted
sday Allover Fair Isle jumper using 3 needles, makkin belt and ra(2020) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
id auld Scots word we grew up using without thinking a thing abou(2020) search twitter
ards rin at! I'm gonnae start using wabster now, (2020) search twitter
now identifies as non-binary using they/them pronouns." So are t(2020) search twitter