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The word 'falling'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fallingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1109
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of falling in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
a, N Zealand etc in favour of falling in line with U.K. Govn? (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Lassies falling lighter on his stomach on page 60

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
I said, "and I keep falling down."
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
u are then: if throwing up or falling down will help your condition
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
him, coming doon ma throat an falling backward ontae the sofa. Ah s
1 matches

General Central

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
ots floating above the field, falling doon in a tiny spray, a kindo
again, red tentacles on glass falling intae a shiny liquid, moving
2 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
Airforce aeroplanes, some are falling off". Ah notice that the hunn (2021) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
e morn hunting. Dini want him falling off again.hei is getting ower(2012)

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Bread Van, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
ye now know how kept it frae falling apart oh aye
1 matches

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