A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'changing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
changingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21412
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central
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) 31.4 1 1
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 changing in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
tation. . . there's something changing-" "Yass," says Eynar, nervish on page 159

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
always changing, a never ending on page 123

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
IanPiriepod remarkable acting changing fae happy go lucky fairmer ta(2015)
ae ah wis stannin on a cheir, changing a licht bulb, fin the wife wa(2019)

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
glish accents are the slowest changing accents probably in the world (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

Lawrie, Alistair Northwords Now 45 - The Win, (Northwords Now 2024) Doric - Peterhead, prose
neist anither aathin wis aye changing; faces bits o folk appeart -
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
think that the wither is changing, the climate, they declare is
1 matches

(South) East Central

McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
sitting oan the bench in the changing rooms as part eh the team ah
ike it wis gonna faw aff. The changing room wis gleaming tae, it was
2 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
o delay the difficulty of the changing voice and allow you to enjoy on page 3

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
the sickening reason Paw wis changing. I'd been the mug. I didnae w on page 91

1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ill require stabilization and changing governments right away won't (2020)

@weenell3 tweeted
ends @Scunnert2 Cannae see it changing soon pal ????? (2022) twitter link

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
t, in the same sad tone, only changing the order o the wurds, a wee on page 55

1 matches

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