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Use in varieties of Scots

sleeping Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.9 2.5 12 0 5.8 20.7 0
Number of occurrences165 8 0 1 2 0
Number of authors13 5 5 1 2

Occurrences of sleeping in Corpus

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Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
zombie Shane is still there, sleeping upstairs" "Yer a baldy cunt l on page 3

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
THE SLEEPING GENT on page 59

1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
thay snuggled in thair kips, sleeping soundly neist tae thair bleez
1 matches

McNulty, Victoria Hame, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
your eyelashes when you’re sleeping
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
A really should be sleeping now, so nicht nicht!.......zz(2016) search twitter

Doric

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Mummy: Ah'm fed up sleeping upright. Ah ... on page 40

1 matches

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
a Sleeping Beauty transformit on page 21
be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping' ~ The Heart of Midlothian, W on page 24

2 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
Are you sleeping pet, I need to take your read
1 matches

Dunnett, Nathan The Auld Asylum, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
a beets and made sure a hid a sleeping bag. Dexter hid been doon tae
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Hivin trouble sleeping an Holland & Barrett wifie su(2016) search twitter
ave hound - she has taen tae sleeping in wifie’s cheir fin she isn(2019) search twitter

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
NIN AWA! Bastardin spider was SLEEPING hinging fae twa legs! #feckin (2018) twitter link

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A roaring fire wi sleeping dug on page 14

1 matches

@officialAliRed tweeted
a family of four (wee yin is sleeping ??), at The Padaro ?????? htt(2020) search twitter

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