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The word 'sling'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
slingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.277
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 sling in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
r set oot fur his denner wi a sling and twa-three stones, on page 44

1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
e stons fae da burn an wi his sling he set aff. on page 24

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
tak yer motor an sling yer hook on page 103

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
h wis her ahd tell Lyndon tae sling his slimy hook. Pamela Sadler on page 169

1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
y fur blood Get it gaun an’ sling some mud Then yais big wurds
1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
Ye sling yersel intae the night. Thons
1 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
eek ay yer erse if ye don’t sling yer hook ya cheeky wee bastar
1 matches

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