A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'greeting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
greetingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus41312
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 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of greeting in Corpus

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Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
thu'll be sorry! This is greeting, this on page 24

1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
ae ta basically exaggerate my greeting so dey can tell da difference (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
iriepod yer WWI scenes hud me greeting like a bairn, wonderful film.(2015)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
do you do. A North East Scots greeting wid be Aye aye, Fit like? or (2021) twitter link

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
@GM1903_ Bet she ain't still greeting aboot it(2020)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
on mane. They rubbed heids in greeting, the equivalent o a haun shak
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
pain kicked in and it wis aw greeting, boking, and screeching.
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
souch o Wigtown's past in his greeting. on page 87

1 matches

@MizLiot tweeted
ell intae Nummer 10 an we’re greeting at this phony (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
start greeting. 'Ladies, please.' Huey tries on page 7

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
There's nae greeting, nae movement at aw. on page 3

2 matches

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
iannafailparty Thon Christmas greeting is in that there leprechaun l(2017)