Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pointing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

pointing	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3	10	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	9.8	3	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	4.4	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	15.1	3	3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.6	2	2
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.1	1	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)

Occurrences of pointing in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
iz doon in the cellar!” And pointing at the big paintin abeen the
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
rth @celebrateabdn Thanks for pointing that oot seems tae be a puckl(2014)
emlin fixed, thanks again for pointing it out. xx(2014)

West Central

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
id." Lewis whispered to Liam, pointing at Livvy.
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
e he went aff his heid, eh-" (pointing wae his teaspoon at the Merch on page 70

1 matches

Atkins, Elise Billy Barr ’n’ Jonny Jimison’s Day Oot!, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Central, prose
y’s eyes followed Jonny’s pointing finger. A broon paper parcel
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin 378, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
hes him heading down the path pointing an imaginary gun skywards whi
1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
an there it is! Thank you fir pointing it oot tae me! Nicht nicht! x(2014)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
e in any way), but it's worth pointing out tae NS's dwindling fan-gr (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Accusing roots pointing high on page 15

1 matches