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The word 'buying'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
buyingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21413
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 buying in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ermarket like a gypit feil an buying up aa the milk an breid - sn(2019)

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
£6 per month, 'fan | started buying the PandJ costin' tuppence, n on page 29

1 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
it hope wis there noo oO ivir buying a hoose - the price they wer on page 18

1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
ecord_Sport @ScottBurns75 Try buying or signing any striker who is (2021) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
that fae a company when I was buying panel adhesive on ebay took t(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
nip! Told the lassie I'm nae buying the bottle! Face like a weet (2017)
I've nae idea if it was worth buying yon milk fer ma porridge earl(2018)

(South) East Central

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
shooting grouse on the hills, buying up fantoosh hooses in Stockbr
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@EdinburghLive_ let the panic buying begin lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ma was there anaw and she was buying calamine lotion an she kept t on page 134

1 matches

General Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
would calm down wi the panic buying, it's no helping them or anyb(2020)

@fourmenterian tweeted
r get fed up with croissants (buying not baking) but still gonna g(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ing aboot tesco wae nae mask, buying a carry oot for their hoose p(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
the man. Ah dinnae approve o buying fae Amazon so ah'll hae tae w(2020)