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The word 'avoidin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
avoidinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91311
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 2
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 avoidin in Corpus

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Shetland

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
he wid hed fir hame. Dat ment avoidin dizens o muckle, black, coors
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
aboot the flattened fillet an avoidin lookin it a reed-faced Chante on page 61

1 matches

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
I say, makkin nae movement an avoidin sayin her surname.. the name
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
Gin yer nae ower fussed aboot avoidin the boorach o veesitors, ye c on page 4

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
open the front door as wey ae avoidin geein him the satisfaction ae on page 117

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
r Nicola Buchanan, ah've been avoidin her lik the plague. She's bee on page 78

1 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
d spent months o’ ma life avoidin’ theym oan the streets an
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
er tae cover amang the rocks, avoidin saft grun. Hsien stuck close
“Ah’ve been avoidin ye,” he stertit.
2 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ratin on every step he makes, avoidin broken glass n dug shite. "YA on page 14

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
s gaun. Ah keep ma heid doon, avoidin eye contact an as soon as the
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
im but the cunt dinghies him, avoidin eye contact. ‘Here, ah’m
1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
French minds us, as a means o avoidin an automatic - een benumbed, on page 36

1 matches

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