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The word 'ending'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
endingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91913
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.4 10 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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 ending in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
always changing, a never ending on page 123

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
and past participle with the ending - (e)d, as in on page 73

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
evinKelkenny I needed a happy ending story. John says Patricia is (2020)

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
e absolute berries. It's ca'd ending the evening on a high note :)(2011)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
mmy wis for ever escaping and ending up wi Agnes, oor doonstairs n
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
uch a shame after all that - ending up with nothing could be loom (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
here an ahm a bit gutted it's ending oan a sour note like this. Do on page 9

1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
This prince wasnae yer ending: he wis filler fur yer plot. on page 72

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
The - t ending is ordnar whan the verb ends on page 23
is common tae evite the - ly ending for adverbs (for an instance, on page 25
like Soothron whaur the - ves ending is eikit). on page 26

6 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
othwell: The Queen's dance is ending nou. on page 14

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
n es heid. 'I don't want them ending up gamblers.' on page 44

1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor The Rhythms of Bratislava, (wordpress 2022) Central, blog
eel as The New Seekers (Never Ending Song of Love), the British-Au
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
and need for a never-ending breenge, on page 10

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Breenge, (Scottish Poetry Library 2016) Central, poetry
kle flawsand need for a never-ending breenge,
1 matches

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