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The word 'shaking'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shakingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.795
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 7.3 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 shaking in Corpus

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General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
A punishment exercise for shaking a goal post. Nivir heard the (2011)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
used him wi the petrol he wis shaking and straining against the rop
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
is it?” the lion whimpered, shaking like a badly set jelly.
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
g forrit in the airmchair and shaking his fist at the screen and sh
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
confusion. Ma han’s were shaking sae much that A couldnae aim
1 matches

Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
ay of the big race, a woke up shaking that bad the springs in ma ma on page 38
got sore and ma legs started shaking again. A went tae ma room and on page 40
so bad and ma whole body wis shaking. "They say you went mad when on page 41

3 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
faery child," my mither said, shaking her heid as she sewed. My min on page 3

1 matches

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