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Use in varieties of Scots

hanging Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2 1.5 9.9 0 20.7 4.4
Number of occurrences94 1 1 0 2 1
Number of authors9 4 1 1 2 1

Occurrences of hanging in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
f yourself, fighting and then hanging around with a bunch of neds. on page 16

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
remarked to Evans that while hanging out his tent-like shirts, she
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
or the whilk there was dailie hanging, skurging, nailing of lugs, a
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ping everyone from midlothian hanging by a thread now with regards (2020) twitter link

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
submitted – it translates to Hanging in there. (Many thanks to the(2014) search twitter

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
estray at least. Perhaps just hanging on in Sanday too. Elsewhere, (2020) search twitter

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
udkin has let himsel go since hanging up the whustle.. #gocharger #(2019) search twitter

@Woodwinecoolers tweeted
JamesAithie If ah see someone hanging on tae some plasterboard ah'l (2022) twitter link

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
et blootered, so we’ll no be hanging like a week’s washing the mo(2020) search twitter