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The word 'engagin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
engaginOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.12010
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 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.9 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)
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 70.3 5 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of engagin in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
kin aa da erse hols instead o engagin wi dem(2021)

Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
will share in the benefits o engagin wi Doric an get a chaunce tae
n Doric that are enjoyable an engagin tae steer the bairns tae wint
2 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 2), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
valry left the field wi’oot engagin. Naebody kens hou they did it
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
e o Lallans we hae sum trulie engagin prose warks: in Stephen Pacit on page 5

1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
(ower a hunder in total)3, or engagin in some ploy that wis tae gar
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
. There is some evidence that engagin wi genetic research serves ta
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Review: O is for Hoolet, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
itudes tae the language wi an engagin an lively performance.
ul o linguists an mair. In an engagin, conversational style, McFarl
e come. She is an articulate, engagin, funny an passionate advocate
3 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
s unco, intense, frustrating, engagin an historic year.
entit oor campaign an enjoyed engagin wi the message o hope we were
2 matches

Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ts i Banchory or Montrose, an engagin wi Scots literature.
an ainlie be descreived as an engagin an stimulatin progressive pol
2 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
Guid tae see schuil weans engagin in #Scots! https://t.co/zDUeM (2020) twitter link

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
alloo tae bae commonity curns engagin' in hale ir in pairt in Ulste on page 34
an curns shews thaim actively engagin' wi' Ulster-Scots cultural da on page 36
advocacy hit's weill kent at engagin wi' human richts an' equaliti on page 40
in nummers o' fowk an' curns engagin' wi' on page 41
programmes in engagin' the public. Thon can hae a r on page 52

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