A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'guessing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
guessingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.176
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 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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 guessing in Corpus

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(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
I'm involved in some sort of guessing game." on page 1

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ank profile sose to keep folk guessing - nudge nudge wink wink lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
head wi’ a weddin’ ah’m guessing nane o’ the three o’ us w
1 matches

General Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
@taylordauthor Am guessing a box of maltesers and a few (2020)

@g_hibby tweeted
inda, ye finished noo?... I'm guessing yer bun's made?.. Have a love (2022) twitter link
?.. This weather's got us aw' guessing mate... It is Scotland mind.. (2023) twitter link

@bigandymccoll tweeted
he's probly just jealous. I'm guessing that she naturally likes they (2022) twitter link