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The word 'bummin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bumminOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus62011
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bummin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e air-con unit aat wis ariddy bummin awa. on page 10

1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
ie divertit itsel the file wi bummin roun an roun her heid: at les on page 43

1 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
Noo bummin saft, syne wi a thunner rair on page 59

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
hyne bummin lik ane angirt fozie-bie. The
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
en mithers and faithers stert bummin their load aboot how gleg and on page 1
mither and faither, insteid o bummin her up, cried her a glousteri on page 5

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Nicola's always bummin her load aboot somethin wheth on page 76
tower blocks, Nicola's always bummin her load cause her ma an da'v on page 169

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
as the lark, An wi blawin an bummin, he bad-mouths the Shark: But on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
d Pooh, 'and I will cairry on bummin awa. And that'll pit his gas on page 41
hit he meant - 1f ye gaed on bummin awa, because ye couldna cairr on page 42
exed for ye.' (He cairries on bummin awa.) on page 43
On their wee bit wings, and bummin on page 76

4 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
up the gap in the waw. He wis bummin awa tae himsel as he pit the on page 72

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Bummin thon wershlike sang? on page 5

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen Eemis Stane 1 - Lees an Crams, or Ossian on the Death of Cuchullin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Ah doot ye hae heerd bards bummin an blawin on page 22
That tha bummin an blawin o bards isnae true: on page 23

2 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
the central belt! ‘He’s aye bummin hissel up’ and ‘It’s no aw(2018)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Gillen, Charles Whun A’ The Kye Had Names, (Ullans Press 2005) Ulster, poetry
things, but ye niver hard him bummin’.
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
It stairts oot quait, a bummin drone, on page 21

1 matches

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