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The word 'hanging'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hangingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.899
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hanging in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
estray at least. Perhaps just hanging on in Sanday too. Elsewhere, (2020)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
submitted – it translates to Hanging in there. (Many thanks to the(2014)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
or the whilk there was dailie hanging, skurging, nailing of lugs, a
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ping everyone from midlothian hanging by a thread now with regards (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
remarked to Evans that while hanging out his tent-like shirts, she
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
f yourself, fighting and then hanging around with a bunch of neds. on page 16

1 matches

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
udkin has let himsel go since hanging up the whustle.. #gocharger #(2019)

@Woodwinecoolers tweeted
JamesAithie If ah see someone hanging on tae some plasterboard ah'l (2022) twitter link

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
et blootered, so we’ll no be hanging like a week’s washing the mo(2020)