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The word 'pinned'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pinnedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41816
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of pinned in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
an hoo the staetion, spinnan, pinned sicweys atween planet an star on page 108

1 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Pinned furnent the shopping bags. on page 102

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Irvine, Owen Eldritch Story, (The Gaudie 2018) Doric - Banff, weans
na move, he felt as if he wiz pinned doon. He lookit doon tae the
1 matches

General Northern

Coutts, Pete Belhelvie, (bandcamp 2016) Doric, poetry
crack it broke his bones and pinned him underneath
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Post, which hud been clumsily pinned tae the wah. Yince you've hit on page 30

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ry Reid, was fund in the wids pinned tae a tree wi a crossbow bolt
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
flew fur Charlene; ah had her pinned up against the wall at D stai on page 101

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
that yi pinned yir hopes upon, on page 21

1 matches

Edinburgh

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
ck intae the arm of the sofa, pinned against it, like.
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
The wey he’s goat his ears pinned back, eh? and as he looks up
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
But for a novice his da's pinned the nappy quite cleverly. on page 75

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
€™ This cunt is good. Goat me pinned against the ropes, ready tae
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
hristopher Robin. He wis oot. Pinned tae the door wis a notice!' on page 73

1 matches

Seth-Smith, Niki Chynge o sum kind is comin either wey, but a vote tae leave wad empooer Europe’s faur richt, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
I’ve pinned doon the core reason hoo I’
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
used tae huv a vid clip as my pinned twat (I only just changed yis (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Lallans 59 - Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
titie; jist as ye thocht ye'd pinned it doon it needit luikt at ag on page 84

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ntented cage-burd, broun hair pinned tae the bak o hit heid, helf on page 60

1 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
e front o her hoose, her legs pinned tae the groon wi the stappers
1 matches

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