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The word 'bakin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bakinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.33121
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 29.4 9 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 4
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bakin in Corpus

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Shetland

Walterson, Vaila Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Da nicht afore da Trowie Show, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
eyd entered an aafil lot o’ bakin’. She wiz busy makin a slae
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Christ, it's bakin ariddy." Morrice felt a fresh on page 10
ny an she smelled o polish an bakin. Ah thocht aboot ither wifies on page 64
e place. He saa her cookin an bakin: porridge, stovies, hen-broth on page 90
aypots an baskets full o hame-bakin; an fin the wirk finally stop on page 93

4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
eggs fur an efterneen at the bakin, or north wast throwe the nee
in wi the lave, an did aa the bakin, butter makkin, jam makkin an
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
pooch in ma jaicket lined wi bakin foil for my githerins. I’d
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
wis bakin. Suzy hidsniffed yon oot wi t
spered Ross. “My granny’s bakin fairy cakes.
2 matches

Aberdeen

Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2022) Doric - Aberdeen
Bakin' will be a trade o' the past

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
Bakin' will be a trade o' the past
1 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 78 - Scots Teegars, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric, prose
ocht flesh hoatchin wi flees, bakin oot on the het Savanna, sae A on page 80

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
het. Pancake wis bakin this mornin an, her bag is fe
1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
Firgot jist foo muckle I like bakin’ ???? https://t.co/1taeMdrLw(2020)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Trotting aroond in the bakin' sun on page 22

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
ane's no a scone o yestreen's bakin, an he'l no lippen til the He on page 48

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 63 - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
d, whase guid Scots cuikin an bakin I hae pruivit, whan I bade wi
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
grannie wis a cliver yin. Her bakin wis a treat.
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
hardly onie shelter frae the bakin African sun. There wis virtua
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
her pan oot wi aw that, she's bakin cakes fur fetes an makin the on page 33
n we wur in Home Ec an we wur bakin stuff he went an pult oot thi on page 85
: we spent aw day Good Friday bakin an half the sponges come oot on page 138

3 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
s roastin, an flat breids wis bakin ower stanes. There wis hauf a
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
rnt...poisoned by wine in the bakin heat in Italy, poisoned in Au on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
n' the sugar an' the eggs an' bakin' their ain cakes, lik' thon P on page

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Aye thrang wi sewin, bakin, fell on page 18

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
he smell o the breid they wir bakin in the back o the shoap wis l on page 46

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Stevenson, Gerda Cat Wumman: Tales O Nine Lives - The Witch, (Luath 2025 ISBN: 978-1804252420) Central - Peebles, prose
thrist up, her face white as bakin flooer, een shut, an a hauf s on page 45

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Warwick, Matthew Fergie an Freens oan tha fairm, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2011) Ulster - Rural Mid-Antrim, weans
in frae tha scullery. Sadie's bakin soda breid oan tha griddle, a on page 11

1 matches

General Ulster

Mc Donnell, John , (Facebook 2021) Ulster, prose
e went in tha dour...gaes tha bakin soda mammy..
1 matches

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