Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'finding'

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Use in varieties of Scots

finding	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.1	17	17
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	7.9	6	6
SEA - South East (Borders)	24.2	2	2
SWE - South West (Galloway)	27.9	2	2
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 finding 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

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
g. But how would you go about finding her?" on page 35

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Vh28EGID reading this was lik finding oot Santy wisna real ??(2017)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Efter finding them tae be so
1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
thin you say taks awa fae him finding his level.(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Bert's been finding it lonely at the bar himself (2016)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e likes o Facebook wis ok for finding oot whit the bad guys were up
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
my own ideas on the subject, finding it very troublesome to retain
1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
nderstaund what is wrang with finding God in His works; surely that on page 3

1 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
uid actis hes bene maid anent finding of lawborrow for preservation on page 23

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
nd sleept upon a hillock, and finding hirselfe transported to anoth
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
tain it, dinnae blame me. I'm finding it hard to do it with this on(2020)

@jax6754 tweeted
e tae move forward and slowly finding ma #positivementalattitude xx(2015)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ur closest kin. And now we're finding some good guys blaming politi (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

The Westender Pipin for the Young Yins, (The Hawick Paper 2008) Southern, newspaper
e it's no juist a question o' finding a hall, its mair findin' time
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@jamie_ginger tweeted
ooky looky on holiday wull be finding it hard this time o year. Wal(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
, a bit shy o’ forty, still finding it hard tae talk aboot when a
1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
et rid of anything! I'm still finding bits and bobs of unfinished o(2020)