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The word 'claimin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
claiminOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.31412
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 2
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 claimin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
He'd been claimin "Support" an the State took t on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
rtith. Syne hame they'd gyang claimin they'd saved the warld, still
1 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
claimin their richt tae freedom o spe on page 26

1 matches

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
Noo, naebody is claimin that buildin a dual carriagew
1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
e can see noo, Bruce why Ah'm claimin Conrad's coffin tae sleep in on page 40

2 matches

(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
Athoot claimin Muriel Gray is aye wyce, she on page 97

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ase afore the Court o Session claimin that the new queen had nae ri on page 43

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
€™r nae shair accoonts o fowk claimin ootrels staw them awa until m
al report fae Scotland o fowk claimin that thay war stawen awa bi o
2 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
rs as a prisoner, aw the time claimin his innocence an bein ignored

@Chazzbat tweeted
uple o years back wi some guy claimin tae be a paedo an tryin tae s(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
tae ask thon tourist proodly claimin on page 45

1 matches

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