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The word 'happening'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
happeningOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52520
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 35.5 8 5
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 15.1 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 56.9 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of happening in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
, and this soart o occurrence happening in an infant clessroom, in th
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Onything exciting happening the day?(2019)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@teuchtertoni Fits happening?(2019)

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
tell me what is happening." Yon news lad seemed affa up
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
t a decent level? That’s nae happening, we are in the market for pot (2022) twitter link
o season. Jist canna see this happening (2022) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
Fits happening(2020)

@cligeey tweeted
ew Deer show min bit it's nae happening(2020)
mokieRed83 @carhandle Same is happening wi the lad wi teen fae St Joh(2020)
Nae happening for Wright(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
e doon tae the pub & see fits happening the day in the Fittie Bar! Pr(2018)

(South) East Central

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
r the end action that wull be happening fifty years awa'; whin ilka t
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@TripeUK What’s happening with semifinal two. You canna(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
m8 - cannae wait to c whats happening with friendlies and if fans r (2020) twitter link

West Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
sicians had realised whit wis happening, it wis too late. Wi a bluid
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
tae his ermchair. “What’s happening, Bapu?
o,” he sayed. “It’s all happening so fast - I’ve only just t
2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'Angie, what on earth is happening?' Dolly says. She's goat her on page 26
'What's happening here?' the taller wan says, g on page 28

2 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
he music, but thirr's hee-haw happening here noo." on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ersh wird chynge. But whit is happening tae Scots - includin Glesweg on page 9

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
wen awa bi ootrels is anent a happening fae 17 August 1992. On this d
1 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
wid believe ma eyes if it’s happening?! https://t.co/uXvVr4stCE(2020)

General Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
r mair! Something exciting is happening in Ulster Scots literature an(2020)

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
hrough a window to see what's happening. Cach not so much except for (2021) twitter link