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The word 'tings'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tingsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92311
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland 93 16 8
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
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 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 tings in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
tuins wi haand-held sinths an tings tae bang, an a hollow body o on page 127
can hiv her races tae Federal Tings, as lang's sheu taks back bet on page 142
t's gaan oot tae the center o tings: Alpha Centauri, than Sol, fe on page 150

3 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
aatagidder). "Oh, poor peerie tings o feet at you 1, I winder wha on page 16
Da Duchess! Da Duchess! Oh my tings o paas! O my oo an whiskers! on page 33
geen tae? An oh less, my poor tings o haands, whit wye can I no s on page 52
ir ten o dem, an, peerie dear tings, dey cam mirry an jimpin alan on page 80

4 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
en birth ta boys bit wan o da tings wis no livin. Da baith o dem on page 25
s. Nae ill sal come ta peerie tings o bairns an aabody sal be liv on page 63

2 matches

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
ent dis island haads its wilt tings closs. Whitivver wye, du seem on page 42

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
you winder, whin dir sae mony tings a bairns needin a guid hame. on page 12
nae attention, bit da peerie tings cam aff greetin, fur dey kent on page 92

2 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
læks a'en fir pierie tings a'bærns on page 12

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
wye o spaekin aboot non-livin tings as bein he, shø or it/hit, s on page 48
laek saand or oo, an abstract tings laek a idea or draem, wid be on page 49
which spaeks aboot inanimate tings. Dis is braali rare aroon on page 97

4 matches

Walterson, Barbara Da Trow o’ Fogla Skerry, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
startin tae mind some o’ da tings I haed experienced dat night.
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Announcin Truncherfaece twins, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
e an led wis in. “Da peerie tings ir sleepin an Olina is blyde
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
uk. Miss McFarlan tuik up the tings an opened the moo o the blaik
ely in the hearth. The braiss tings an poker stood in the coal sk
an reenged it ower the table, tings an poker, coal scuttle, an a
3 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
Da's deid smart abot a ton o tings, but when it cams tae common on page 25

1 matches

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