A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'floating'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
floatingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 2
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 floating in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Thain, Gianna Far Shaddas Lurk, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
Loosome lang locks floating effortlessly ahin ih’ bonni
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
ee specks high up in the sky, floating aboot on their helicopters as
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Floating as they mak their wie ower i' on page 194

1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
ic evidence you got for this? Floating support? Foo mony were at the (2022) twitter link

General Central

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
ir eyes sewn shut: still, but floating. I reached tae touch them, an
couldnae reach him coz I wis floating, I wis suspended. I wis still
is suspended. I wis still and floating, like in water. And the thing
uld see this wee dust in dots floating above the field, falling doon
4 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
els are a bit too weighty for floating shelves... (2023) twitter link

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