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The word 'flying'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
flyingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.41110
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 4
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of flying in Corpus

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Orkney

Brown, Moyra Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
n 'Arabian Nights' carpet for flying through the air. on page 29

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
chicks fae Norway, reared to flying and then released(2020)

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
od knows what rumours will be flying round!" on page 21

1 matches

Dundee

Kerr, Oliwia, Sarah and Amber Fiona and the Ring, (Scots Hoose 2017) Doric, weans
to pass her spelling test wi flying colours. However, a laddie na
1 matches

General Central

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - fower poems bi John Waddell, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Thochts o a Flying Snail on page 62

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
r, appearing in the North and flying rapidly towards the Earth.
a fiery Dragon was seen flying near the Earth, and vomiting
2 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
' blue sky.... :) Also a high flying jet heading for the Atlantic (2023) twitter link

@bigandymccoll tweeted
lyering constantly. Howsabout Flying Flyerers. ?? I repeat, Alex i (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
.they wont can keep up wi the flying ginger. #runfatboyrun(2012)

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
dle of it all, bits of rabbit flying everywhere. Flo was frantical (2021) twitter link