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The word 'paying'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
payingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus41312
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of paying in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
e wholesalers than people are paying in these big stores," shü co on page 15

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
being such a good hotel, from paying a living wage to serving such(2020)

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs There’s nae reassurance over national insurance, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
0 thoosand a year, ye’ll be paying oot almost £200 mair or, to
1 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
w the blinking thing. I'm nae paying it!(2011)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
could be heard sayin "I'm not paying you anything." on page 91

1 matches

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Harry, hae yin yersel, he’s paying.” Nodding in ma general dir
1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
a hunner percent sure he wiz paying enough attention to grasp whi
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
at ‘im. Of course I’m no paying attention to a fucking Sean C
1 matches

General Central

@RickHJohnston tweeted
ae yer elbuck. And let's STOP PAYING SCOTS TAXES TO LONDON. Only w (2022) twitter link
d ?????????????? says.. We're paying for this,, and it isnae even (2022) twitter link

@weenell3 tweeted
happy tae contribute tae the paying for the Service Davy (2022) twitter link

@LowEndJardo tweeted
n a watch wae ma new gaff. No paying for a room, location or the c (2021) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
rnet_2011 i really gid night. Paying for it the day thou. #alithea(2012)