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The word 'acting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
actingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.31110
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 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 acting in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
€˜Oh I’m fine!’ I replied acting the pillar o society that I a
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
@IanPiriepod remarkable acting changing fae happy go lucky f(2015)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
Mcgeough. I think Mcinnes is acting against his nature amid recen (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
e man up - get a life n stop acting like poosies - dont b a sap (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
some heid shots ae me fur the acting portfolio ah'd been asked tae on page 169

1 matches

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
up. It wis hopeless. Emma wis acting unusual, in the sense that sh
1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
. We may dream big but he’s acting big an’ he’s no gonnae le
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
, maybe it's time you started acting like it.' on page 16

1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
nses or trouble of the person acting as banker, etc’. (Jamieson
(18 Dec 1917.) reads ‘While acting as treasurer of a grocery “
2 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
comic plenitude’ through an acting style that had a parallel wit
1 matches

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