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The word 'relaxing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
relaxingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of relaxing in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Crackan the troughs, (Brisk Northerly 2021) Orkney, blog
snow and in the February sun, relaxing in the later stages o thur pr
1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
lks! yins very good. Hid's so relaxing, can just get fairly lost in (2020)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
you'll find it to be the most relaxing experience you've ever had - on page 82

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
in on they were Granpaw Broon relaxing aat the But ‘n’ Ben! https:(2018)
ver understood wye fowk say “relaxing ower a coffee” - eence ah’(2019)
ot #voting the day, gie Lyn a relaxing kyte rub instead! #EuropeanEl(2019)

(South) East Central

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
th' win` became a repetitive, relaxing noise tae calm th' madness be
1 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
w' done noo.. Plenty time for relaxing.. Get the knitting oot... :) (2022) twitter link
Right, I'm sat sitting here relaxing noo.. I'm gonna scroll doon m (2023) twitter link

@Chazzbat tweeted
Self-hypnosis? Tightening and relaxing each muscle group? Listening (2020)