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The word 'travellin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
travellinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.41411
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 travellin in Corpus

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Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
er had been aa ower da wirld, travellin on da metal monstrosity kent
1 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
year I wis so excited tae be travellin hom fir Delting Up Helly Aa, (2021)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
ured video footage o somebody travellin aboot raither than the lyrics
1 matches

General Northern

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
fae the mirror an the tartan travellin rug on the back seat, ma stre on page 96

1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
The first concerns a travellin shoe-salesman by the name o S on page 118

3 matches

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
ey spike railins. It wis defo travellin oan that kindae loopin airc,
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ayin the trunk belanged tae a travellin man, on page 112

1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
truly be oot oan ma arse. But travellin back hame isnae wi’oot its
1 matches

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
tland but ah'm thinking aboot travellin tae the far East. Probably Co(2020)

@pmcm1355 tweeted
ither places in the world, no travellin isnae an excuse fir lack o kn (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
e back hyme was ma aim! After travellin up and doon Isles. Noo ahm ba(2020)
Travellin back hyme fae Auld Reekie, a (2020)