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Use in varieties of Scots

pressin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.1 9 6.4 0 0 21.9 8.8
Number of occurrences2517 4 0 0 2 2
Number of authors20 14 3 2 2

Occurrences of pressin in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
unk hauf the boattle her heid pressin up against the ceilin, an she on page 34

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Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
her bit. By nou, her chin wis pressin that hard agin her fuit, that on page 44

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Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
desperate fur advice oan some pressin maiter on page 39

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e servin as a drone in yin by pressin a button aw day. Aye, ah coul on page 22

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
o Embra, fer instance, it's a pressin ane. The leeches o developmen on page 89

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
ugh the roof,' said Mr Wonka, pressin anither button. on page 173

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
each driver pressin lik mad oan the man that's ah on page 108
Thowe follaes cranreuch; pressin haurd oan Voar on page 149

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ey o it," he said tae Violet, pressin a button on his walkie-talkie on page 153

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Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
In-twist- and pressin masses o rock on page 107

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Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
camera in the burgh withoot a pressin reason. Promiscuous realignme
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Heather, Alistair The ghaist lichts, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
ural runnin o things, an mair pressin maiters cam tae the fore.
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Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Pressin the buzzer ah wait fur a repl
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Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
her ane bed and felt somethin pressin against her side. She fished
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“Ay?” she sayed, pressin him, wintin tae mak him say i
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grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
against the top, and fingers pressin’ lightly against th’insid
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
long table. As he wis gently pressin doon oan different parts ae m
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Doric

Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
nither three quid an' I tried pressin baith the green buttons, een
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Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
watter, pressin a button that said ‘ON’.
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@beast_afc tweeted
h, cosy should be back up and pressin, ref wisnae gonna change. Chr(2020) search twitter
@AberdeenFC Keep pressin. Nae game management shite...(2020) search twitter

Southern

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Thowe follaes cranreuch; pressin haurd oan Voar on page 216

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Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
th bottle, she funnd hur heid pressin aginst th ceilin, an hed tae on page 33

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Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
half o it drunk hir heid wus pressin agane the ceiling, an shae ha on page 34

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Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Pressin ain ir haltin' still on page 22

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