A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'seeking'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
seekingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 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 seeking in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
A reader is seeking the Doric for Mid Life Crisis(2017)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
gh - av no problem with them seeking land to stay on and its a pit (2021) twitter link

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
e knew not, having wandred in seeking of her sheep, and sleept upon
1 matches

McNulty, Victoria Hame, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
Wanten, attention seeking, hysterical me.
1 matches

@RickHJohnston tweeted
. Best option for any country seeking effective democracy. https:// (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Seeking out the knowes and hollows on page 47

1 matches

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