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The word 'expectan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
expectanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.485
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 4
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 105.5 3 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 expectan in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
fine that hid wis whut he wis expectan me tae say anywey, even thoug on page 19

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Fur me and the wife are 'expectan' and ah'm prood as a pup wi t on page 32
There I'd been, expectan twa lasses - bit wan wis a m on page 58

2 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Expectan tae kettle Better-like dreams on page 20

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
he windows as it accelerates, expectan a rippan growl. But the Lambo
1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ed got so much intill e way o expectan nothin but oot-o'-e-way thing on page 14
me o play wi a cert-horse, an expectan every meenad till be trampled on page 39
Alice waited a peedie, half expectan till see id again, but id did on page 62

3 matches

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