A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sucking'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
suckingOccurrences 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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 sucking in Corpus

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Edinburgh

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
the most, Simon’s hot mouth sucking all ower ma neck.
n’ whore, fuckin’ braw at sucking cock, all ye shuld dae frim n
2 matches

General Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
trying tae get a gold star by sucking up ?? I jist said the same ab(2020)

@_Erinboyle_ tweeted
s of fitbaw. Commercialism is sucking the soul out of the beautiful (2021) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
judge asked: "Have you tried sucking a fishermen's friend?" Dougie(2021)