Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'ing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

ing	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.7	19	10
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	40.7	7	1
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	8.9	2	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	8.9	2	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.4	2	2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
SEA - South East (Borders)	37.4	3	1
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)	18.2	1	1

Occurrences of ing in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
-een comes fae Aald English - ing/-ung at formed nouns fae verb on page 41
3.2.1.2 - in isna - ing on page 45
ormed wi da suffix - in (no - ing! See Section 3.2.1.1), as sha on page 76

6 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
ir snyurled up wi da suffix - ing (laek weddung 'wedding'). Dis

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
yer kind wirdies, hope yer ha'ing a guid Sunday. xx(2014)

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
gain fan a ma neighbours thra-ing oot a their rubbish fer the F(2017)
ace cad Fittie on one icy bla'ing a hooly day, lived an auld ma(2018)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DO-ING, said Kelly Marie. The two ae on page 30

1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
h is Caesar’s, an’ allo’ing the English tae infiltrate an
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
We were at Dalnoid for a ski-ing weekend, when Ma died. One of
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ing last night, and you were maki
1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ontrasts wi the verbal noun - ing(e) inflection. This distincti on page 17

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
34. Keikin Gless: Li Ch’ing Chao (1082-1144)
of Li Ch’ing Chao (1082-1144)
of Li Ch’ing -chao (1082-1144?)
3 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
cht tae thaim, an yit tha yin ing that's here noo ïs mair ner on page 9

1 matches