A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'challengin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
challenginOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.11010
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 challengin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Writers' Circle fixed ma wi a challengin glower. on page 7

1 matches

(South) East Central

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
dea an soond o Braid Scots is challengin fir onybody wha cares fir the
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ssage whaur Fiona descrives a challengin crack she haes wi her Auntie
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 82 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Prestwick, prose
rby a tale at's thematicallie challengin kis cynicism seems (ay, mebbe on page 7

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
d a trip tae Glenshee wi’ a challengin’ group o’ school-refusers
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
wad sit at a remainin buird, challengin aa comers tae game for preens
1 matches

General Central

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
n a motion frae Irene McGugan challengin the Executive's refuisal ti i on page 4

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
on mair gritty, poleitically challengin plays by the likes o Ena Lamo
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
Imagine, a fushionless mortal challengin a goddess!” lauched Athena.
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
lms wur sung, prayers said, a challengin few words thrown at us by the

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