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The word 'drinking'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
drinkingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.61815
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 drinking in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tame Hogmanay, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
ebration wis immense, and the drinking wis legendary. It wis aal the
1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
@LesleyTotten No smoking, no drinking and no more messing aboot, Ay(2020)

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
t's aawye. I aaywiz dee if um drinking bit the noo it's every nicht.(2020)

@cligeey tweeted
Oot phone app drinking(2020)
ight nae winner we were binge drinking(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
s aboot? A buttery to stop me drinking at the Fittie Bar? Fit next? (2016)
an himself, so here he is, my drinking partner Bert. Bars open soon (2016)
bit fan it means an exile fae drinking in the Fittie bar due tae yon(2020)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
g tae tak up a lot o valuable drinking time, so I suggested we sat a
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
f Nicola Sturgeon for banning drinking in pubs and restaurants for a(2020)

West Central

@MizLiot tweeted
pals an being pressured intae drinking each time, an treated like a (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
shaggin lassies in the daurk, drinking cider n British sherry. Nae E
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
otice a bunch ay neds staunin drinking, makin a bloody nuisance ay t
1 matches

Ayrshire

Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
, an ah ken ye didnae like me drinking. But when ah opened ma een th
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
d beard riding an old ass and drinking from a horn
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
wifes boyfriend a retard for drinking while on his anti psychotic m(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
bug Reminds me of a very late drinking night wi ma pal Mr Ellsworth (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
xt ti is get up after eating& drinking get up and leave. The waiter (2019)