A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hitting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hittingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.244
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 hitting in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
st posts - noo ah'll ye stop hitting me ower the heid wi the pot!(2018)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
tlantic which she loved, I’m hitting a bit o form ?? (2020) twitter link

Ayrshire

Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
gie them a skelping. Ah hated hitting them, but it had tae be done.
1 matches

General Central

@changed_days tweeted
ippin ma hair oot when he was hitting the 1s an 5s. Like tae see an (2021) twitter link