A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'escapin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
escapinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus41312
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 escapin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
burnt tae the daith,biled by escapin stame or tae hear the skirls
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Inadvertently assistin me in escapin ma daze. "Yur burd's left yae on page 76

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ng at the tap o the rock: nae escapin up that, than. Muckle, crude
s an owerhang at the tap. Nae escapin up thon.
2 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
cannae help another moan from escapin us as he pinches ma nipples r
1 matches

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Thir really is nae escapin. North, south, east an westâ€
1 matches

General Central

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
e kent they haed nae chance o escapin us, an wis shoutin commaunds on page 58

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
die could hear the hiss o air escapin, like somebody had stuck a pe on page 42

1 matches

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
akkin a ledder oot ae muck an escapin frae a zoo. A'm likely tellin on page 4

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
d, or ony ither beast forbye, escapin aff the brae. on page 33

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
theirs, ye ken, figuratively escapin wisnae really enough, but at on page 69

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
s down the street. There's no escapin this lot, wi Aunty Cathy livi on page 34

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
e poetry up later fae me. Nae escapin it noo we're aw stuck inside!(2020)