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Use in varieties of Scots

rockin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.2 5.1 10.6 0 0 10.3 8.9
Number of occurrences2010 7 0 0 1 2
Number of authors15 9 4 1 1

Occurrences of rockin 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

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
e the wee shoogle ae the body rockin ever sae slightly oan its whe on page 1

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 2 - Editorial: A Twa Wey Street, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, prose
umanity. There's nae point us rockin up tae the pairty wi a bottle on page 3

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
abrupt end. You've goat boays rockin back and forth oan yin ae the on page 27
e git there. The bus hus been rockin fae the moment we departed an on page 101

2 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
an rockin an tell yi things on page 109

1 matches

Tindal, Betty Lallans 67 - Two poems by Betty Tindal, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Dumfries, poetry
[She'd seen an auld tree rockin aboot on page 129

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
nce til Scots comin back on a rockin-horse wes a reference til the on page 95

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Whuppity Stoorie, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
ummin sittin on a tree stump, rockin back and forrit and sayin tae
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ere, pickin the bastart up an rockin it in his airms, like a wee w
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
t the ship stertit buckin and rockin lik a live craitur. We didna

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
he fireplace's crackit tiles, rockin back an fore aS Ah stared it on page 65

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Move ower Mozart, we're rockin in Cambus O'May on page 74
Far rockin horse fowk eat aa day an nich on page 129

4 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
r jet lag chat like? Whaurs e rockin' tunes ken?(2016) search twitter

@daleser23 tweeted
u hae inite? My vindaloo was rockin.(2013) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
adays, leading by example and rockin the Bardic Mask! Right, Allow(2020) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ated porcelain shoe. A wumman rockin a banjo. A wumman wi'oot a ba on page 35
ectit, bae the toys. A wuiden rockin horse frae the 1920s was deem on page 57

2 matches

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