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The word 'wrestling'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wrestlingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4115
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 21.7 4 1
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 wrestling in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Wrestling is coming to Aberdeen and tic(2018)
Funcy a free nicht aat the wrestling: https://t.co/3KSzyDJ3ot(2018)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
idnae be complete withoot the wrestling. This filled the 4pm until th
pa tae hae while watching the wrestling.
s we kenned him) watching the wrestling wis an entertainment in itsel
3 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
wder. The two lads stoap airm wrestling an declare it tae be a draw. on page 10
net's an laughs, 'Ahm no airm wrestling an auld wummin, fuck sake!' | on page 11
. Ahm no getting beat at airm wrestling aff a fuckin auld wummin,' on page 14

4 matches

General Central

@bigandymccoll tweeted
announce that, after some arm-wrestling he claims (??), Daniel now ha (2022) twitter link

@LowEndJardo tweeted
n a got right intae Simpsons wrestling https://t.co/DX4SL2ILEV (2021) twitter link