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The word 'testing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
testingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7127
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 testing in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
d whin the veet's cam tae deu testing or anything o that kind. Sheu on page 15

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
ll about indescretions around testing - clearly it wisnae because (2020) twitter link
g that there was a problem wi testing players - nae the case. Howe (2020) twitter link
m. But, the signings the day, testing the stream...excitement noo b (2020) twitter link
n Leitch’s dismissal of mass testing and the approach taken by S K (2020) twitter link
, front line staff dying, nae testing...a walk in the park for John (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
elburgh aye its all about the testing side defo n having to adapt i (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Tibetan plateau as a nuclear testing range back in the 20th centur
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC DENIES TESTING
1 matches

General Central

@IshbelMcF tweeted
@IshbelMcF testing what gets a wee emoji cake(2016)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
Spaffer an his mates product testing (an failin) but mair tae, his(2020)