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The word 'inventin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
inventinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22410
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 3
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 22.3 17 3
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)
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 inventin in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
laik goon lik a Roman senator inventin weys ti keep the plebs doon. on page 54

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
e paper. Ah've aften thocht o inventin a spray fur riddin wirsels o on page 153

1 matches

Edinburgh

Bremner, Stewart Haud Yer Wheesht?, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
st o us ken aboot Logie Baird inventin the telly, or Watt's steam in
1 matches

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
m up wi sic a variety o them, inventin aw but the scatter plot. He u
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
wadna went tae the tribble o inventin a langage as weill. Or mair l
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
The Inventin Chaumer - Never-Stap Gubstap on page 99
ey're brand-skelpin new! I am inventin them for bairns that haurdly on page 102
ood richt in the middle o the Inventin Chaumer. It wis a moontain o on page 104
eberry across the flair o the Inventin Chaumer towards the door that on page 112
across tae the faur end o the Inventin Chaumer and gaed through a sm on page 116

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
a richt knack for buildin and inventin aw kinds o whigmaleeries, sae on page 3
al engineerin. I'm pure intae inventin things, me." on page 39
uld hae a muckle wirkshop for inventin," Violet said, as if in a dwa on page 59
nt the gears and levers o her inventin brain were birlin awa like la on page 111
Violet wis cooried awa in the inventin pairt o her brain, ower busy on page 113
Also on pages 115, 118, 121, 130
9 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
alace o anither foreign king, inventin new mervels. But he niver fle
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Lallans 59 - Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ntlie self-assessin, if no re-inventin itsel, an yin that's jist had on page 84

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