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The word 'cutting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cuttingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus51613
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 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cutting in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ah wis cutting ma toe nails in flechie hinma(2014)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
kins blasting over, Hayes nae cutting back (2022) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
idarity wee the cooncil n nae cutting their greens(2020)
@Ali_Leith Yer nae cutting them in half ti get them in t(2020)
Cutting standards a step at a time th(2020)

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
And so I'm cutting down on tea.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
8 - av goat the professional cutting gear - never paid fir a hair (2021) twitter link
nd in very close proximity - cutting your hair - is far more a ri (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
-runny resin. And ... ah-hah, cutting and welding equipment.”
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
irdin an spinnin the fleeces; cutting an dryin winter peats on the on page 55

1 matches

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
aughter and grandson.ended up cutting a lonely picture,on Ma loneso(2019)

@Chazzbat tweeted
Wha's bin cutting Gary's hair durin lockdoon? O(2020)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
at least the bush disnae need cutting hen! (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A budget cutting cost on page 24

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
cutting the ties o' childhood on page 101

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
cool doon an mairk it oot fur cutting, but dinnae cut it tae it's c on page 28

1 matches

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