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Use in varieties of Scots

paying Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 4.1 3 0 11.6 10.3 0
Number of occurrences138 2 0 2 1 0
Number of authors12 7 2 2 1

Occurrences of paying in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
could be heard sayin "I'm not paying you anything." on page 91

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
a hunner percent sure he wiz paying enough attention to grasp whi
1 matches

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Harry, hae yin yersel, he’s paying.” Nodding in ma general dir
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
at ‘im. Of course I’m no paying attention to a fucking Sean C
1 matches

@RickHJohnston tweeted
ae yer elbuck. And let's STOP PAYING SCOTS TAXES TO LONDON. Only w (2022) twitter link
d ?????????????? says.. We're paying for this,, and it isnae even (2022) twitter link

@weenell3 tweeted
happy tae contribute tae the paying for the Service Davy (2022) twitter link

@LowEndJardo tweeted
n a watch wae ma new gaff. No paying for a room, location or the c (2021) twitter link

Doric

The Flying Pigs There’s nae reassurance over national insurance, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
0 thoosand a year, ye’ll be paying oot almost £200 mair or, to
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@Franwella tweeted
w the blinking thing. I'm nae paying it!(2011) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
e wholesalers than people are paying in these big stores," shü co on page 15

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
being such a good hotel, from paying a living wage to serving such(2020) search twitter

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
rnet_2011 i really gid night. Paying for it the day thou. #alithea(2012) search twitter