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The word 'distancin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
distancinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 2
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 28.1 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of distancin in Corpus

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(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
hnBrash4 spot oan - a social distancin swally in ma ain wee bubble l (2020) twitter link

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
hocht aboot the lack o social distancin involved in the ran dan. Rich(2020)

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
. Ah’m a pro at this social distancin lark. Ah put oan a sunglasses
1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
k observe guidelines o social distancin, *correct* an consistent mask(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
rviewin urnae observin social distancin, or wearin face masks. Whit a(2020)
evable that wull be wi social distancin. Unless we dry hump inanimate(2020)
room thegither wi nae social distancin or haund sanitiser. See hou t(2020)
Octopus Few masks, nae social distancin. Fuckin eejits. ??(2020)

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
tim' distancin bae a cultural curn an thon m on page 17

1 matches

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
We noo ken social distancin, on page 37

1 matches

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