A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'using'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
usingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.53525
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 3
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 15.8 12 9
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.8 3 1
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 using in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
" caad "Guddicks" fae da sand using "hjuks"(hooks).

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
a Magnus an Freya's hoose, an using da cat flap at Nicol an Ingri
1 matches

@HazelTindall tweeted
sday Allover Fair Isle jumper using 3 needles, makkin belt and ra(2020)

Mid Northern A

Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
yi hink yi cin git let aff we using ma clothes n ah ma makeup. Th
world! Different if it was yi using hers, she’d defiantly git p
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
haan tae haan, rifle butts or using entrenchin tools in a vicious
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
r in her life imagined hersel using that knowledge o the Black Ai
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ids up Bin of Cullen. I'll be using bin as a Sco (2020) twitter link
nt wi list o Scots wirdies - using Snapchat. Topper! https://t.c (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern B

Harvey, Lewis Crash, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
in her heid off at me for nae using her crossing. As usual a jist
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
u’re referring to but we are using these games much like pre sea (2020) twitter link

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
e. Jist look at es ah e' noo. Using Twitter tae spik e' Doric. So(2019)
csJ @BBCArchive We were still using the halfpence piece up until (2020)

(South) East Central

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
cused, specific accuracy when using particular Scots words to mak
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@VFSportsPix spurs using the second hauf as a trainin (2020) twitter link

West Central

@MizLiot tweeted
s name, it’s fine. If ye’re using it whilst trying tae condesce (2021) twitter link
60s and is confused by people using the term ‘hen’. (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
his wee picnic table. He wiz using some massive fucker of an old
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
any times afore, when we’re using his belt to shoot up, but thi
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
inging it intae some machine, using a big bucket. Fuckin ten hour on page 60

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
layout, and formatting. Since using plain English makes the encyc on page 9

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
multaneously undermined it by using an anglified spelling and gra
1 matches

@gordimhor1 tweeted
rpaddy @JimSpenceSport Are ye using tacketie beets tae tak a tell(2020)

@jax6754 tweeted
hink you should go again only using one hand.? Much mare fun in m(2015)
ar!?? Hope he disnae mind you using awe or some o his pocket mone(2015)

@IshbelMcF tweeted
@joforjoanne @AllusionistShow Using language - ‘fluently’ or w(2019)
itated by SE English speakers using the same sound the English us(2018)

@RickHJohnston tweeted
nto Holyrood by the back door using a Unionist-designed PR system (2023) twitter link

@OliphantWullie tweeted
plies and folk accusing me of using a lingua franca that would no (2022) twitter link

@bigandymccoll tweeted
votes would count - I'd been using it as provenance ?? (2022) twitter link
appened here Saorse - you're using clear-thinking and logic. The (2022) twitter link

@rattlecans tweeted
Scottish politicians had quit using English ports tae save them t (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
id auld Scots word we grew up using without thinking a thing abou(2020)
ards rin at! I'm gonnae start using wabster now, (2020)
now identifies as non-binary using they/them pronouns." So are t(2020)