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The word 'passing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
passingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.42417
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
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 22.2 5 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 25 4 3
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 passing in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
an_rose They're just migrants passing through. Nathusius' Pipistrel (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
k up Grunnawal, dey missed da passing place an we wir nearly at da (2019) twitter link

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
re more whimbrel/Peerie Whaap passing through Shetland this year, s(2020)
p doon on da grass. If you're passing take a look ??(2019)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
niping at Ant Stewart, re his passing. He’s nae Beckenbauer, but a (2022) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
e day wee news o' Dod Michael passing awa. still sing twa o' his so(2016)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
andered through the redgrass, passing scattered whistling thorn, st
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
tick Thistle players wha kept passing the ba tae each ither (even w
1 matches

Crawford, Ross Mindin, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
t still loomed large ower her passing. The morning efter, ah receiv
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
session yesterday - as a wis passing - aye eeve no lost it big ma (2021) twitter link
endlies av seen lately in the passing ! (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McKenzie, Roddy Cataracts, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2018) Central - Dundee, prose
next yin. Jist like thi licht passing thro thi windae- in and awa`.
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
It’s time, was but passing,
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
A cairn noo marks his passing,
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e sayed, “Il happened to be passing. Anyway we’re not looking f
1 matches

Havery, Hannah The Gaithering, (Literature Alliance Scotland 2022) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
haundling them wi care, afore passing
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
. ‘Watch the Beemer, as yer passing, we just got it.
1 matches

General Central

Perrie, Walter Lallans 74 - The Lion Laid Low by the Man, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
A passing lion fairly caa’d their bun
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
tae the amazement of all the passing pensioners, no jist all the e (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Passing by a' hae tae stop on page 9

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
like time passing - it might take a year on page 85

1 matches

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