A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'knocking'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
knockingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.554
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 knocking in Corpus

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General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
twa! Hope ma pal Bert is nae knocking her aff as been absent o' lat(2016)
the Fittie bar the ither wik knocking back guiness efter guiness & (2018)

West Central

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
, and scratched Emma's torso, knocking her tae the side.
1 matches

General Central

Geddes, Jenny Fling the creepie in January, (McRenegade.Scots 2018) Central, blog
to the bank an’ we keep oan knocking oor pan’s oot believin’ w
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
les681 I confess tae enjoying knocking the Lego intae shape Freckles (2022) twitter link

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