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The word 'finkin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
finkinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.581
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 1
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 finkin in Corpus

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General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
'Same,' ah reply wi'oot finkin. on page 12
un darts up, and there wis me finkin he wouldnae say boo tae a goo on page 24
lls o the big school. Ah mind finkin ah could dae that awready. Th on page 30
Ah cannae stoap finkin aboot writin. Maybe it's jist on page 34
epartment wi the best o them, finkin o the day's creation. on page 36
Also on pages 42
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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
t pocket, and ah take it oot, finkin it's Mum. It's an automated t on page 35
w bad the damage is. Ah sigh, finkin o aw the photos o me posin in on page 88

2 matches

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