A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'visiting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
visitingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11716
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 4
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
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 visiting in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
shock tae blether wi "Are you visiting too?" an gars somtheen a weys on page 47

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Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
y aboot me great grandparents visiting a ferm on the Lyde Road in Ha
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
g the dishes is seeing who is visiting my garden. Just now it's a Ro(2014)

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
ived...as ah wee kid ah loved visiting there..but mah big cuz (Ped) (2021) twitter link

General Northern

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
ars. and made life long pals! Visiting friends shortly tae get ma fi(2019)

@daleser23 tweeted
t just realised il be awa oot visiting ma mam n dad then. Gutted.(2013)
@rossandrew_ nah im oot visiting my mam n dad for buckpool ane(2013)

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
hat my father always did when visiting." on page 1

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Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
arly seventies Johnny stertit visiting on Friday evenings (instead o
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
d, when an auld Scottish mum, visiting her son, got stopped in Heath(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
rips thru tae fauldhouse when visiting family - so sad - aye its a (2020) twitter link

West Central

@annieones tweeted
first (as oor FM says) before visiting yer new friends, who'll huv t (2021) twitter link

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
as of the young laird who was visiting the castle with his family. on page 3

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Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
a Pairk (www.clacksweb.org.uk/visiting/gartmorndam/) in the wee coon on page 65

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@g_hibby tweeted
@gersoise32 Glad we're not visiting at this time Alison... Be scu (2023) twitter link

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
can nae langer tarry. (Night Visiting Song stolen by Dylan and put (2020)

@billykayscot tweeted
th century, a young Frenchman visiting Scotland criticised our homel(2020)

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