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The word 'glancin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
glancinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6125
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
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 35.2 7 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 174.4 3 1
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) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of glancin in Corpus

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Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
ry noo an dan I could see her glancin across at me.
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
A kin see a few cunts n burds glancin at us, wonderin who the fuck on page 28
oops! Know wit Amean?' A say, glancin over tae the burds n winkin a on page 30
pulation, Wee guys n burds ir glancin through and whisperin as they on page 51
s was your bad flu?' he says, glancin towards ma maw. She shifts un on page 54
ch, in the meantime, he says, glancin towards the two polis doin th on page 58

5 matches

Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
gazin doon oer her sleepin an glancin oot oer the Gothic grandeur a
ah foallie him oot the room, glancin back tae the frail auld ghost
2 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
The square bottle glancin lake fire, on page 6
The watter, glancin ower its dark, on page 17
The glancin jab an stoory flail o the for on page 27

3 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
us changed, an hïs claes wur glancin white turnt. An, luk see, tha on page 86

1 matches

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