A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dying Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 2.5 8.9 19.9 5.8 0 9.7
Number of occurrences165 6 2 1 0 2
Number of authors14 5 5 1 1 2

Occurrences of dying in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Your mother dying in self shame and fear on page 40

1 matches

MacColl, Ewan Lallans 102 - Fae: Jamie Foyers, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
strang in the union till his dying day: on page 92

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
At the bedside o a wummin, dying, on page 19

1 matches

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
an dae tae stap yourself from dying, slowly and painfully. I woul
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
a1959 Think aboot it. Who was dying of covid? The salaried wi the (2022) twitter link

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
e the perishing, care for the dying...' Goad! Fit's the pynt? on page 32

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
nbulg Castle through the bare dying trees, and the sands o the Br
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Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
for their mithers, some jist dying, and Big Rab Stewart tellin h
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
urnt Vengeance Whilk wye will dying hospice patient take revenge (2017) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
n a ward where 42% of us were dying. The PPE was not fit for purp (2021) twitter link
munity, PPE, front line staff dying, nae testing...a walk in the (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
against the dying light in the west on page 27
Aye, Sam hid wis, and till me dying day on page 130

2 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"When Mam thought she was dying, she told me the truth about on page 24

1 matches

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
warren_maguire I think wer is dying out so good excuse to use it (2020) search twitter

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
@auldsideheid Dying embers which my mother would (2019) search twitter