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The word 'dancing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dancingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.53522
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 3
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 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 2
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 18.4 14 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 84.8 7 3
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 dancing in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Grottie-Buckie and Tirli-Wirli, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997352) Shetland, weans
bi dancing apön hit an flatchin hit oot on page 20

1 matches

Watt, Valerie Görwill trows blamed for earthquake, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
Ivery Shetlan trow kent o wis dancing laek dey’d niver danced afo
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
My peerie itchy reminders of dancing to @mungoshifi @Knockengorroc(2018)

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Tak tae the lift on shinin dancing wings on page 15

2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
t I've aye needed a sexy pole dancing reindeer in ma life fae @TheR(2016)

Mid Northern B

Johnston, Shaun The Forkie Gollach, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
it he wis fair gan loopy and dancing up an doon. We thocht it wis
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
rling up aff the Broch beach, dancing across the land until it thin
1 matches

The Flying Pigs The ‘Naked Cleaners’ idea is appalling. It’s sexist, demeaning, and at £80 an hour, steep, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
in the professions, like lap dancing and drug dealing. Still, I ca
1 matches

General Northern

Wheeler, Leslie Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Doric, weans
Dancing Daft on page 13

1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Dancing like an asinine Elvis on page 19

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Lucy Lock Doon, (Greenock Telegraph 2021) Central - Greenock, poetry
Nae school, dancing or Brownies
1 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
tae the hoose or went tae the dancing wi or at least he niver had w on page 76

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
3 speaker n switchin between 'Dancing in the Dark' n 'I'll Get Over on page 25

1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
d and the room made ready for dancing. Each year up till now I have on page 3

4 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
ich instilled in us a love of dancing I carry with me still. We wer on page 120

1 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - Gentlemen of the road, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
nspeckle in the warld o sword dancing,
Yon time Ah wis intae belly dancing
Noo Ah’ve hud a bellyful o dancing,
3 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
and ah watched the dustspecks dancing in its light. There was hair
id like a halo, glisterin and dancing in the light. Ah covered the
2 matches

Fyall, Aitken Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
There s dancing ay in ilka tae,
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
nderfoot... Nane o' yer fancy dancing oan ice.. :) Have a guid day (2023) twitter link

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
@Sayers33 I dream o dancing wi friends and strangers! I c(2020)
Dancing Quines! IndepenDANCE #AUOBGla(2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A dancing frost yer neb tae numb on page 38
There's dancing angels, fairies, elves on page 39

3 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ncer, an weel A mynd on ‘um dancing it the dances i the Forman Me
dancing the waiter heid fock bruikit,
ter, played the piano fur oor dancing it oor Xmas concerts, an weel
3 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
rachelnuttella hope u hav yir dancing shoes on that night nuttella?(2012)

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