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The word 'encouraging'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
encouragingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.588
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 encouraging in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
parks is a backwards step in encouraging eese in local shops - Hiv a (2019)

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
It wisnae the maist encouraging stairt tae a conversation. Al on page 43

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General Central

Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
n o ideas an this is whit wey encouraging social activities is made aa
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
broon51 See BB... You're just encouraging him tae show his grub photo's (2023) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
Me Soooo guid tae see regular encouraging tweets again tae inspire! Wel(2015)

@IshbelMcF tweeted
n ma life wi Scots. His open, encouraging wey, an his braw chat, his gi(2018)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
ere dead helpful, passionate, encouraging & straightfurrit with us youn (2021) 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
e," the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. on page 67

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