A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'giving'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
givingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52517
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 giving in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
with public life. And as for giving them decent clothes - well - on page 35

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@helenmoncrieff tweeted
I'll be giving a peerie webinar next week???(2020)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
I’m giving away a signed copy of my nove(2018)
ion - fa kent! An Aberdonian giving awa free cash! Enter aat http(2018)
On ma ither website ah'm giving awa twinty five poun - enter(2018)
peen an teaspeen an ah’m nae giving tham back, an ah’m nae gyan (2018)
ted himsel as a singer aifter giving fowk balloons fur auld claes.(2019)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
als stopped Oswald Mosely fae giving a speech in the toon in the (2020) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
te o this ned @Ciaran_Dickson Giving it big licks with his phone t(2020)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
stuck in the hoose with MrsW giving me things tae do, or work. De(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@Dunsy_27 spot on brother - giving people no hope with that stat (2021) twitter link
by the sounders and leafa for giving the go ahead for the tourname (2021) twitter link
s awe the hassle away without giving any info out - o happy days (2020) twitter link
only one ecky salmond - keep giving them it tight brother - u we (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ay so,” agreed Mrs Bose, “giving you time off to attend to you
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grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
the edge. Ah know ma face is giving it away, cheeks no doubt flus
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Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
Da wis thanking them all and giving them all huge hugs. But we di on page 42

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Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
dly long counselling queue by giving worrying answers in the onlin on page 1

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
firmament, and in the running giving great light and spouting fire
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@jax6754 tweeted
role model for them. An your giving them a stable upbringing tae!(2015)

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
Any Celtic fans giving it the "what aboot Sinclair" (2018) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
It's giving gifts tae please on page 8

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@officialAliRed tweeted
Adam's Kitchen in #Hawick giving presents to the bairns - a t(2019)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
y a Croodlin Doo (Woodpigeon) giving her lilty? Let's hear some ot(2020)