A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example ahint

The word 'hinging'

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings -

Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hingingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.41110
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 31 7 6
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hinging in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
Bastardin spider was SLEEPING hinging fae twa legs! #feckinspiders (2018) twitter link

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Athing jist hinging fer soakin weet,
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
Oooocha hoor, fair hinging oot ma erse the day.(2019)

@cligeey tweeted
@shunad Hinging aboot(2020)

@daleser23 tweeted
Iv dustin johnson on ina. Hes hinging aboot like. Still gmac n dufn(2013)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
flu that wis gan aboot! Still hinging aboot me like a fart in a lif(2019)
@DerekWeston16 Usually hinging aff the end o’the bar pished(2019)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@DoricPhrases "hinging" is jist pan loaf.(2019)

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
t kindae path: a looping arc, hinging in the air fur whit felt like
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n97 ee say it how it is n nae hinging aboot m8 - too many sit oan (2020) twitter link

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
shed, hoosework done, washing hinging there drying, Whit's nae tae (2023) twitter link