Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'smiling'

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Use in varieties of Scots

smiling	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.8	16	13
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	9.8	3	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	7.7	3	2
WCE - West Central	8.9	2	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	3.9	3	2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	31.4	1	1
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 smiling in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
I am smiling thinking o da bairns. https:/(2020)

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
showed a really bonny lassie smiling intae the camera. But it wiz
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
p and saw Daavd standin there smiling at her the wye he used tae. M
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
s in their post-strike photos smiling - bit fin ye speir tae tham (2018)

General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
m on their wedding day. Baith smiling lik they're really happy. Ma on page 44

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@aberdeencity Winna be smiling noo(2020)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
The Smiling School for Calvinists - Bill
1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
’s haun and appeared tae be smiling at him in an appealing manner
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
lins, wi a pleased face, seen smiling ower his shouther.
1 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 76 - Tammy an the Cheese Plant, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
ammy leant back in his chair, smiling .
1 matches

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
The waves roared. People were smiling . Staring. Never blinking. The
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
tae me. A stand brave, still smiling. "YASS! You fuckin tell 'um, on page 25

1 matches

General Central

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
Larry comin back an Larry wis smiling, so me an Thomas wir smiling on page 44

2 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
ancroft Gonna be studying but smiling as ma choice tae study?. Hope(2014)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
in a wile quick nervous wye, smiling it iverythin that wus said, a on page 79

1 matches