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The word 'shining'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shiningOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.799
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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)
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 shining in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
bit who cares when the sun's shining. We discuss what we're going on page 30

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
It's lik a scene fae da Shining ! Sailing on da MVHrossey #kn(2016)

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Rise in the mornin see sin shining throo,
1 matches

West Central

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
l figurr, aw o them seein the shining gold security badge.
1 matches

Dundee

Kerr, Oliwia, Sarah and Amber Fiona and the Ring, (Scots Hoose 2017) Doric, weans
But then she spied something shining in the burn and went tae hae
1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
y wab sclints in the low sun. Shining draps Strung atween the branc on page 3

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
ls, and that when the sun was shining.
1 matches

McNulty, Victoria Hame, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
Blood blue eyes shining strip lights
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Frae factory shining new on page 34

1 matches

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