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Use in varieties of Scots

moving Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.8 4.8 14.4 0 17.4 10.9 8.8
Number of occurrences249 9 0 3 1 2
Number of authors18 8 6 1 1 2

Occurrences of moving in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2003 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
We were here first! We're not moving,' - so ah joost says tae the on page 2

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
air over above the tolbooth, moving here and there, which did muc
1 matches

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
ing the corridors, constantly moving its heid every time it heard
1 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
, nippin at their cooties and moving them aroond the perk. Haudin
1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
and he wis gone, and the wee moving things in bags seemed tae hav
falling intae a shiny liquid, moving coz o my hand, building up ta
2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
out of hand when it comes to moving the Pandit from his home on t
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
goes on, fix it while ye can, moving on is not easy, so don(2020) search twitter

@ricky_ballboy tweeted
CharltonLeonie’s Marram – “moving and compelling” – an as a G(2020) search twitter

Doric

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
ine went tight and it started moving aboot so I knew by then that
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
assie hid tellt her they were moving awa doon the Arbroath wye bec
aside a big stove. She wisna moving and fin they knocked the big
2 matches

Facebook link ( 2012) Doric - Buckie
efter leavin the school afore moving oot tae Paris for a year, the
stint in the Big Smoke afore moving tae Edinburgh for aboot 18 mo

@72redz1903 tweeted
arron and Clarkson as key tae moving the ba forward quicker. (2022) twitter link
ate tae much o this, but, try moving through somebody else’s ‘co (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
he got oot to create the clan moving forrit(2020) search twitter

@daleser23 tweeted
hings aboot too many managers moving. Nae all them will happen(2013) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
k, off Tescos :) They've been moving between Gulberwick adn Fladda(2016) search twitter
Scotland There was one filmed moving two cubs yesterday aroond Gre(2020) search twitter
#orcas moving north to Dury Voe dis beautif(2016) search twitter

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
Think it drooned. So am just moving it aboot the box to give her (2020) search twitter

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
remember thon Feenyin family moving before they left(2019) search twitter

@the_gellick tweeted
ur for cloddin tha baa owre a moving motor, then catchin it aff th (2019) twitter link