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The word 'breathing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
breathingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21412
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 breathing in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
room wae me. I could hear him breathing. Bit no, I try tae be calm, i on page 85

2 matches

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Anti maskers be lik “YoU’Re BrEaThInG iN aLl ThIs BrUcK aNd It’S p (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat If I Catch Ye I'll Eat Ye, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
aited a minty or twa till his breathing became slower and raised the
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
Grunny’s breathing is still a little raspy, but
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
’m up oot ma seat and I’m breathing fast. Ma haert’s sair kind,
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
eeling. Burning feeling while breathing and totally fatigued and the (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
And foul-breathing memory Of one-time glory. on page 4

1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
ah een became heavier 'n' mah breathing became even. Th' whistling o'
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@NicolaSturgeon a hairdresser breathing down your neck and in very cl (2021) twitter link

West Central

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
hoose, and it seemed to sigh, breathing and humming, attempting tae k
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ng injuries and the authority breathing down my neck - not to mentio on page 55

1 matches

General Central

@rattlecans tweeted
need an ambulance tae get her breathing again if the cackling disnae (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
t. Ma eyes went bleary and ma breathing was heavy. I felt ma stomach
1 matches

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