A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'packing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
packingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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 packing in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
es fae my window in Shetland, packing for Iceland https://t.co/GIBq(2017)

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
nnes0 It is holiday hoose een packing n oot the day(2020)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
st girls eh ?? My auld bodies packing in, young mans game. Aye we b(2020)

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ma thumb an forefinger afore packing it intae ma pipe. Tam sits qu
1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
@MaxGeorge Packing fir weekend in Wales wi freen(2015)

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
@JJChalmersRM Neat packing. Once a Marine, always a Mari(2017)