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The word 'riding'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ridingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus41311
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 74.9 6 4
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 riding in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ea enjoys DIY, cooking, horse riding, walking and all aspects of c on page 52

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
riding ye reverse cowboy, on page 34

1 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
m Neigh bad Quine, whaurs yer riding helmet?(2018)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
otland cyclists r exempt from riding on the pavement - you hae ta (2020) twitter link

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
an old man with pointed beard riding an old ass and drinking from
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
Border riding families, Scott, Elliott & Ar(2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
THE HAWICK COMMON RIDING on page 26
It's Summer now And Common Riding thoughts on page 43

2 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
bag, slung owre ma shouthers, riding ithoot onie lichts
1 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
s birthday faws at the common riding. Cause 9 time oot o 10 a get (2019)
the people respect the common riding and what its aboot.(2019)

@officialAliRed tweeted
d to kick-off the 2019 Common-Riding. After missing last year with(2019)

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
ide wi the rest at the Common Riding Day, And form Constitutions u on page 42

1 matches

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