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The word 'entertainin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
entertaininOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1139
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 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 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 3
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 entertainin in Corpus

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Orkney

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2017) Orkney
behalf o aal the admins, for entertainin and educatin iss!

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ed te Sandy deein his best it entertainin convirsation. on page 27
n bit te extend fit wi aa the entertainin wi dee. In fack, if ye're int on page 31

2 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
Provost wints it kep guid for entertainin heid bummers whan the hospita on page 26

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
s awthin theatre shuid be – entertainin, imaginative, excitin tae leu
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
Houane'er, wi the brawlie entertainin Willie Wilkin, Hogg pits us b on page 139

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
opher Corduroy’ is nae less entertainin a wark, for aw that it is qua
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
watchin a blizzard, only less entertainin.
1 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
ro. It's utterly mad, but gey entertainin. Disappyntit we didnae get pr(2020)
bash the Beeb, as it's hugely entertainin an educational.(2020)
aughter readin this! ?? A gey entertainin read. Tyvm.(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
hat women's fitba is far mair entertainin than men's fitba?(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
aw canny... this video's fair entertainin, but NSFW (no safe fir weans) (2018) twitter link