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The word 'liking'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
likingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.12014
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.2 6 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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 liking in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
they'd played. He developed a liking fur the drink - became alcoh on page 77

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"If you liking air-conditioning," said the m on page 7

1 matches

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
aised tae be o the view, that liking the stuff wis a doon reflecti
1 matches

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@MakitaUK Liking the look o that! Been hummin'(2019)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e yolkers.” She had a great liking for Polo mints and Senior Ser
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@1Mikeydfc What are yi liking bud ?(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
heres sum right nosey feckers liking there ain comments - fgs lol (2020) twitter link
or followers now - hees even liking his own comments on social me (2020) twitter link
TollcrossTh @pencaitlandfc am liking the look of this btw - a hop (2021) twitter link
tsLive @RadioSaltire that you liking your own account - o dear lo (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tedly fur ma, or his wife’s liking, judgin by the look she gies
1 matches

General Central

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ae be fashioned by us tae oor liking; on page 43

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
e cheil that we hae a want or liking for. In the Soothland byleid
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ures me... Nothing wrong with liking the chocolate and we have aww(2020)
ley You are right but I'm not liking what you say cause a dinnae c(2020)

@jax6754 tweeted
tae say cause "twitter" a no liking yir links! xxx(2015)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
DeoraiRua Guid idea Alex. I'm liking yer thinking(2020)
@AnDeoraiRua Ah'm liking yer ideas though.(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
ly, not quickly enough for my liking. It affects the very make (2020)
a Scots Lockdown poem or two. Liking the mag and content, well don(2020)