A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'calling'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
callingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81616
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of calling in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Calling oot tae #Shetland #Shetlander(2020)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Calling all you lonely singletons: wh on page 36

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ah really maun stop calling the yoke button on the washin(2020)

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
sorted..but ahv nae idea how calling someone Jock or Scouse can be (2021) twitter link

General Northern

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
€™t you think English is your calling?
1 matches

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
Why in heaven's name are you calling the woman Ma? Don't on page 1

1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
annae pronounce Carl and kept calling him Carol. By the way Carol, (2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
rder for saturday - lithgaes calling - what a way tae bounce back (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
€˜Tool!’ he blasted. ‘Yer calling yer best pal a fucking tool.
1 matches

Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
aboot ma da. They were always calling him mad. Saying things that w on page 39

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
. . the pipes, the pipes are calling!’ Pearcey joins in.
1 matches

General Central

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ghter. Jessie and William are calling her Margaret after her Grandm
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
isnae being disabalist, i wis calling him a fking bam ??(2020)

@weenell3 tweeted
10 @linda_kinnon He's forever calling a plumber oot tae unblock his (2022) twitter link

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ir. "The pipes, the pipes are calling." on page 11

1 matches

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
rd meant. I thought they were calling me an arse assist.(2019)