Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

sting	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.7	12	12
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	13.3	3	3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.1	2	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	2
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)	88.3	1	1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster	14.1	1	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sting in Corpus

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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
An yer bird kin sting on page 120

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
irm a wee bit and it taks the sting oot the sair patch a little.
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
Jaws, Poseidon Adventure, The Sting... (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Whaur did they sting ye? Is it sair?
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
The Sting
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
shi canna sting. on page 60

1 matches

Edinburgh

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
tically jumps. He soothes the sting wi slow, wet kisses which ah
1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
An the sting o hot tears. on page 17

1 matches

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
It packs a muckle sting. on page 16

1 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
@ThatEricAlper Sting, Jimmy Nail, Alan Shearer, Ro(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Bot sting ain tail ait nir ends on page 17

1 matches

General Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne A Furst Readin Book in Ulster Scots, (Evertype 2011) Ulster, weans
“A bee'll sting . Am fur rinnin” The goat ru
1 matches