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Use in varieties of Scots

thinking Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words27.1 22.3 32 29.8 23.2 142.2 8.8
Number of occurrences8442 20 3 4 13 2
Number of authors54 32 10 3 3 5 1

Occurrences of thinking in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
le," said the Dormoose, wioot thinking aboot it at aw this time. on page 73

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Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
on and the Moose. This got me thinking aboot reworking mair o Aesop' on page 3

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Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
So you think he's thinking on page 60

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
ien's readin quately or juist thinking tae hissel, on page 119

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
love that. She told me she's thinking of starting a creative writin on page 40

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
ye'll come roond ti ma wey o thinking on page 35

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Calderwood, Lynsey Lallans 68 - Barlinnie Gradyooits, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
iminoal behaivyoor. Start biy thinking ov sum interesting qestyins y on page 41

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ays here daes shaw whit kin o thinking is gauin on amang the fowk in on page 110

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McCabe, Mary Lallans 73 - Soond shift, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
sleekit shift in aw wur wey o thinking on page 49

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Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - The Scaffie Man’s Tale, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
in twa minds as ye can tell, thinking it through. Since Ah cam aff on page 113

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
When thinking of the agony of those who fou on page 122

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McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
ions, memory, unique modes of thinking, meaning and expression”.
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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
uence ower Christian European thinking an sae it becam awmaist a her
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Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
hat’s jist because she kept thinking aboot us leavin her here hers
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Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
erse fae their elbae. He wiz thinking tae himself, "Ah’ll be surp
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Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
were the richt yins, so A’m thinking aw that, and how, actually wh
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Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e were happy here. Ah suppose thinking aboot it noo, the very proces
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Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
’re aw laughing and no even thinking aboot Lugs, no even thinking
aboot Lugs, no even thinking any o it might matter. Ali lo
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Chalmers, Aimee Lallans 59 - Joukene Poukerie, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
Awbodie wuid be staunin aroon thinking whit a bonnie lassie ye was,
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
younger man. “A very quick-thinking friend.”
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Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
m, no sayin anything, no even thinking really, jist sittin. Ah felt
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@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
@JaneyGodley Wow I am never thinking they cannae get any worse aga(2020) search twitter

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
_cheeky Good ! I went tae bed thinking about your wee girl, and gave(2020) search twitter

@g_hibby tweeted
@BenartyComputer @hibee_mad Thinking o' just sayin' nowt' from now (2022) twitter link
J Thank you Gwennie.. We were thinking of going oot, but Pat says it (2023) twitter link
Thinking I'm happy no having a link ta (2023) twitter link

@RickHJohnston tweeted
Your UNION according to your thinking has rendered Scotland to be T (2022) twitter link

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
Relativism? I may be talking, thinking bunkum.(2020) search twitter

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
@Sayers33 Superb! Set that thinking to mair than just decent!(2020) search twitter

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
canny dae ma work the day fur thinking aboot it. Aff it’s heid righ(2020) search twitter

@billykayscot tweeted
dfc front man Simon Murray’s thinking “this will dae nuthin tae qu(2020) search twitter
sae I still yaise it withoot thinking. Pronounced mair like thur.(2020) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
idnae leave Scotland but ah'm thinking aboot travellin tae the far E(2020) search twitter
Miggins Jings, and here wis I thinking that cockwomble had fucked af(2020) search twitter
uid idea Alex. I'm liking yer thinking(2020) search twitter

@bigandymccoll tweeted
icolytes in the party tae her thinking. (2022) twitter link
Saorse - you're using clear-thinking and logic. The gender-pish wo (2022) twitter link

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
alise how much you do without thinking about it. And how difficult i (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
lowland league thinking about awarding the league to (2021) twitter link

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
'Ay, A'm thinking that ee're a much younger maa on page 80

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ee pink flooerie an the wirds Thinking of you oan the front. "Nellie on page 25

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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
t fit they caa the conceptual thinking ahint this muckle gless box I
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Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
catcht ma braith mony a time thinking mibbes he’d drap e stick an
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Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
mmunity. So what? Ye micht be thinking. Well it wiz aifter I’d dof
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The Flying Pigs Use of the common good fund for slap-up feed merely follows in grand old tradition, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
But this got me thinking. Could me and ony o’ the th
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The Flying Pigs The ‘Naked Cleaners’ idea is appalling. It’s sexist, demeaning, and at £80 an hour, steep, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
r leggings. Plus I canna stop thinking aboot fit could happen if she
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
video recorders in the 80s an thinking they were iver sae funcy! Fit(2018) search twitter
these jaickets in the 80s an thinking they were richt funcy! https:(2018) search twitter
ah reflect upon VJ Day ah’m thinking o ma grandfaither fa served i(2020) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
squad wi wingers and forward thinking players at the expense of a s (2023) twitter link
@thecoastguy Ken fit you’re thinking - white lives matter eh? (2020) twitter link
@PeatWorrier Wis thinking the same min (2020) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
th gid English swayed me when thinking of fitever young loon gets a (2020) search twitter
chreuder92 Eggactly fit I was thinking #standfree(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
w owners o the Fittie Bar are thinking as price o a nip and a half h(2016) search twitter
day the day. But fit tae dee? Thinking o' a wak up the beach bit nae(2017) search twitter
@lisafaulkner1 wiz thinking o deen ma ayn cook book. Corn(2017) search twitter
Thinking o'getting a new dug since he (2018) search twitter
ling_silver aye fit like, I'm thinking o'treating yon wifie o' mine (2018) search twitter

Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
It's me favourite thinking place on page 44

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Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ssical stuff they profess tae thinking is sublime. on page 48

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@peediepuss tweeted
a usual prefix in Orkney. I'm thinking mostly of older folk and the (2020) search twitter

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
sive, sociologically-informed thinking.
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@Julie_Dennison tweeted
bairns in da lights and I’m thinking “How ir dey in here dir no 1 (2018) twitter link

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
y feel my heart ache just fae thinking aboot having to think aboot c(2020) search twitter
I am smiling thinking o da bairns. https://t.co/9kd(2020) search twitter

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Tae ma wey o thinking, gin the U.K. hed been foondi
frae maimorie, An A fin masel thinking i parteeklar on place naems a
A’ve juist been thinking thit thar wur mebbies nae Pet
A’m nou thinking aboot it laest twae fock at b
kan juist jalousie Tammy’s thinking is hei strampit, wi crutches
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The Westender Pipin for the Young Yins, (The Hawick Paper 2008) Southern, newspaper
be the police. Bit it got mei thinking. There's a grand muckle hall
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@jamie_ginger tweeted
Wasni broken doon. Cheers for thinking aboot is thou.(2013) search twitter
ornet_2011 no sure yet bungle thinking aboot it.trying to get moved (2012) search twitter

@officialAliRed tweeted
Thinking of this yin on what would've (2020) search twitter

@StuartPoet tweeted
word we grew up using without thinking a thing about. My uncle bred (2020) search twitter
f fae 5, 10, 20 years ago and thinking, that's no bad, just needs a (2020) search twitter
What a team indeed. Thinking of and prepping for all. Guid(2020) search twitter
@ScotPlaywright Aye, was thinking same. Wee bit chittery oot by(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
oon went Alice efter it niver thinking fur yin minute hoo shae wus g on page 8
, waatchin the settin sun, an thinking o wee Alice an at hir wunnerf on page 124

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