A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'collecting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
collectingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of collecting in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Cairryin Stream o Tradeetion, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
lies-Brown, forby ane on Song Collecting an Fieldwork wi Margaret Benn
1 matches

Edinburgh

Havery, Hannah The Gaithering, (Literature Alliance Scotland 2022) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
aw whits bin collecting
1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
ped frae the hoose this morn, collecting chestons for the kitchen. The on page 3

1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
ow, watching through my eyes, collecting information aboot how I live.
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
e ye managed tae get yer wood collecting done, and it stayed dry for y (2022) twitter link

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