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Use in varieties of Scots

winning Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 2.7 6.4 0 11.6 10.9 4.4
Number of occurrences135 4 0 2 1 1
Number of authors11 5 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of winning in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
here was nae chance o Red Rum winning a second time.
1 matches

Macdonald, Ileene Fit’s it aa aboot?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
he Yes campaign appears to be winning the peace.’ [1] (O coorse I
1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
free kick and the Rovers are winning by a goal at half time before
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
teve @RealPeteBennett We been winning for a wee while it seems ??(2020) search twitter

@g_hibby tweeted
team need tae concentrate oan winning a game..?? (2022) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 73 - Obituary for David Ogston, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
mpack an symbolism o Cardinal Winning, the heid o the Catholic Kirk on page 12

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Funcy winning a car: https://t.co/OJdhII5VD(2019) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
ist think the bigger issues o winning and losing are jist as likely (2022) twitter link
moment - but if yir team’s winning naebody is complaining aboot (2022) twitter link

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
otters, what a treat! ?? I am winning at #wildlifephotography https(2018) search twitter
Dis oscar winning sketch fae Uyeasound Up Helly(2018) search twitter

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
!????Later, Scots claimed the winning. https://t.co/FwTEiKf0(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@fairfaaye tweeted
des of the Sheugh' with award-winning Scots poet @StuartPoet. Pleas(2020) search twitter