A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'biding'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bidingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 biding in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
orn hinmaist nicht aat me fur biding far ah wis kis an auld wifie (2017)
far this hoosie is? Ah funcy biding in it! https://t.co/GZnXonjbo(2017)
far this hoosie is? Ah funcy biding in it! https://t.co/nPD0cj27o(2017)

Mid Northern B

Dunnett, Nathan The Auld Asylum, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
thing fir sure a didna fancy biding here the nicht. It wisna that
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
‘Do ye nae miss biding up this wye? Yer toon? Being
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
land There wiz an affa Romans biding at Kintore for a while(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
macking ma mooth sliver! Was biding aff that the day but am easil(2018)

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
an born, raised, educated and biding in Scotland should reduce him(2020)
t ony person born, raised and biding in Scotland wid ca' themselve(2020)