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The word 'moving'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
movingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52418
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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 28.1 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of moving in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
k, off Tescos :) They've been moving between Gulberwick adn Fladda(2016)
Scotland There was one filmed moving two cubs yesterday aroond Gre(2020)
#orcas moving north to Dury Voe dis beautif(2016)

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
assie hid tellt her they were moving awa doon the Arbroath wye bec
aside a big stove. She wisna moving and fin they knocked the big
2 matches

Facebook link ( 2012) Doric - Buckie
efter leavin the school afore moving oot tae Paris for a year, the
stint in the Big Smoke afore moving tae Edinburgh for aboot 18 mo

Mid Northern B

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
ine went tight and it started moving aboot so I knew by then that
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
arron and Clarkson as key tae moving the ba forward quicker. (2022) twitter link
ate tae much o this, but, try moving through somebody else’s ‘co (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
he got oot to create the clan moving forrit(2020)

@daleser23 tweeted
hings aboot too many managers moving. Nae all them will happen(2013)

(South) East Central

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
, nippin at their cooties and moving them aroond the perk. Haudin
1 matches

@ricky_ballboy tweeted
CharltonLeonie’s Marram – “moving and compelling” – an as a G(2020)

West Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
ing the corridors, constantly moving its heid every time it heard
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
out of hand when it comes to moving the Pandit from his home on t
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
We were here first! We're not moving,' - so ah joost says tae the on page 2

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
air over above the tolbooth, moving here and there, which did muc
1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
and he wis gone, and the wee moving things in bags seemed tae hav
falling intae a shiny liquid, moving coz o my hand, building up ta
2 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
goes on, fix it while ye can, moving on is not easy, so don(2020)

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
Think it drooned. So am just moving it aboot the box to give her (2020)

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
remember thon Feenyin family moving before they left(2019)

@the_gellick tweeted
ur for cloddin tha baa owre a moving motor, then catchin it aff th (2019) twitter link