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The word 'kissin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kissinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.72517
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 23 5 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
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 kissin in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
I turned ta Marnie, huggin an kissin her oot a sheer exuberance, f on page 94

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
pittin his airms aroon ma an kissin awa ma doots. on page 44

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
umman his nivver devaallt fae kissin ma feet. Ye didna annint ma h on page 92

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
an enthusiastic display o air-kissin. on page 29
oders an gaed throwe the hale kissin palaver again. on page 30

2 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I'll pretend that I'm kissin on page 73

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
maks! Jist as gin a bodie wes kissin the winnock aa ower outbye. I on page 12

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
o tae shift it. Just touchin. Kissin the jack. on page 1

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy No on BBC, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
doun an as suin's they start kissin, his face gaes soor. He puls
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
mooth against mine an startet kissin me. He put his airms aroon ma on page 73
n tae you. So see when he wis kissin yi, she said, When yees wur i on page 74
r jist pals. Charlene startet kissin her haun an sayin, Oh Chrissi on page 111
tae know whit like she is at kissin. He went in a pure bad mood w on page 169

4 matches

Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
tae know whit like she is at kissin. He went in a pure bad mood w
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
an tells me thi wir jist kissin, on page 67

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
He wis kissin her as gin he meant it. It wi
at ye gang.” Than they were kissin again, an his haun wis inside
2 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
ew ah'd be safe. Twa boys wur kissin. Naewan would o stood fur tha on page 7

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
o her man at the French wey o kissin, on page 33

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
d back in case Sergio started kissin him too but
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
ew ah'd be safe. Twa boys wur kissin. Naewan would o stood fur tha on page 4

1 matches

Briggs, Susi The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Princess and the Grumphieman, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
n me sae naebuddy wull see me kissin!" she ordered the lassies-in- on page 90

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
eist – jist as she’d been kissin him goodbye ae mornin – she
1 matches

solonggaybowser Merlin's Bairns, (archiveofourown.org 2020) Central, prose
" Merlin cryed on the cat, wi kissin soons. "Come here, Crannie!"
1 matches

Smith, George Electrical Love, (Thi-Wurd 2013) Central, prose
led Petta on ma knee n Ah’m kissin a beautiful boy/girl/man/woma
1 matches

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