A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sporting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sportingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.554
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 sporting in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
nae like that, oors wis aye a sporting hoose.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
looking on the bright side of sporting life - if thats the case - (2021) twitter link
yes we all no sporting integrity and fair play - is (2021) twitter link

General Central

McClurg, Fernando “Blood Upon the Grass” – merk twa?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
is imporant to seperate this sporting fixture from the serious huma
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
steamie, trade unions, pubs, sporting clubs an ither social clubs.
1 matches

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