A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'laying'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
layingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 laying in Corpus

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Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
ocht dey wir lucky an sho wis laying on a garment, dan dat wis fin
unlucky and dey cam in on her laying on, sho wid spret hit back an

Aberdeen

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
Some Hingin curtains, ithers laying Lino or mats
1 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
@jamierodden hod? Ye laying bricks min Jimmer? I da ken a(2015)

@72redz1903 tweeted
AbzPodcast Can talk about nae laying a glove on them but the key m (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
ee and Tweedle Dum here aboot laying intae each er, wits gonny get
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
ke others. I see a polar bear laying on its back. What is it ?(2020)

General Central

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
ry hersel became an expert at laying the cement flairs necessair f on page 11

1 matches

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