A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'enjoying'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
enjoyingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22411
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 19.5 8 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of enjoying in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Saw this bonnie loon enjoying the fine Aberdeenshire sunny (2014)
Ma chuckens enjoying some rare Aberdeenshire sun a(2016)
Ma tortoise enjoying his morn tomato. Fit's the Do(2017)
Ma freen Gonkie the tortoise enjoying his morn braakfist lettuce. F(2020)

Aberdeen

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
k in an auld KFC bucket files enjoying a bit o’ a ‘Netflix and c
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Enjoying a richt fine sinny day.
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
e seat in Fittie Bar wee Bert enjoying a quiet nip or twa then in wa(2017)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ee the lads back together and enjoying the drills etc - all good fo (2020) twitter link
ekends m8 - the young ones r enjoying there games no end and its gr (2020) twitter link
op people from meeting up and enjoying a drink and socialising - re (2020) twitter link
ghLive_ great to see everyone enjoying the lovely weather - to hell (2021) twitter link
nks he is gonna stop families enjoying the festive period - dont th (2020) twitter link
and 3 other occurrences.

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
us 'och It looked like ye wir enjoying yirsels!' Aonghas hauns me a on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
weel," he replied, evidently enjoying my look of mystification, "yo on page 12

1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
a1 @allieneave As long as yer enjoying yersel' Chick, aw' that matte (2023) twitter link
@freckles681 I confess tae enjoying knocking the Lego intae shape (2022) twitter link
ble Space Telescope done.. :) Enjoying this Lego gig.. :) I'm away t (2022) twitter link

@DABArbuckle tweeted
@SusanCalman Fair enjoying yer wee Sunny Side Up book Su(2019)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
articularly worth heeding and enjoying right now ?? https://t.co/aUq(2020)
heers Matthew, hope wee Bea's enjoying them!(2020)

General Ulster

@Rosehill_girl tweeted
hotos! I’m delighted you’re enjoying my book - thank you for your (2021) twitter link