A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'collectin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
collectinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82616
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 20.5 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire 64.1 6 1
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 20 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of collectin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
A fortune ye'd mak collectin't in tubs It wid sell awa fin on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
y jyned in. He likit tae help collectin, an he likit
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
aboot the streets wi a chunty collectin the money, though the maist o
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
There's a wuman gone aboot collectin the empties. on page 112

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
s. The wee yin, Isa, has been collectin her pension an buyin twenties on page 46

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
uist shivvin yer fiver in the collectin tin. on page 122

1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
ful, ye can volunteer tae try collectin taxes in Accompong: ye’d bo
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
twenty pund note in the Vigil collectin tin an drove aff. Twenty pund on page 106

2 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
een wanderin roon aw the beds collectin somethin. on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
message fur me. Monty’s oot collectin.’
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ais, his wee pencil moustache collectin wee globules ay sweat oan it
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e’s buzzin aboot the table, collectin empty glesses an puttin them
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
n took up mair o oor time wis collectin. I say it wis ae pastime, but on page 23

6 matches

General Central

Cairns, Pauline Lallans 58 - Newsins fa the SND, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Hooanever, we're still collectin so if oniebodie oot there fee on page 110

2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
we can at least get yokit by collectin material as the opportunity a on page 16

1 matches

Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
o Hamish Henderson’s eident collectin o tradeetional sang bides yet
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ious geekery o haufflin-years collectin o irregular French verbs an o(2020)

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
- Music - Establishin', collectin' an' restorin' the Ulster-Sco on page 23
y cooncil shud commission the collectin' an' recordin' o' Ulster-Scot on page 51

2 matches

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