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The word 'expandin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
expandinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of expandin in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"Sheila says dir expandin dir stock, shü wis sthaain m on page 38

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@shaetlan_rose tweeted
@MarjoleinR trows hiv been expandin dir music taste?(2020)

Edinburgh

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
itit itsel tae simultaneously expandin its population throu biggin n
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Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
hat she’d bin thinkin aboot expandin her fid sources.
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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
worker’s case files an ever expandin criminal records - the only
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Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
lyde streamin blood intae the expandin pool ay reddinin snow. At lea
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General Central

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
lang learnin an is speirin at expandin the uiss o Welsh in the priva
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
it, the latter’s aye still expandin the day.
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South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
Liddel expandin on page 38

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