A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ringing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ringingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.176
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
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 ringing in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
runny’s hoose phone started ringing.
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
me question, but, they’ll be ringing me fit £14.99 on Sunday as I (2023) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
is that, bit ma lugs go hame ringing every nicht wee yer not stop (2020)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Frae his bell-ringing he'll retire, on page 93

1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
e sheets and bells for prayer ringing through the nicht. Sometimes on page 3

2 matches

@RickHJohnston tweeted
mments aboot Crimea should be ringing bells amang the sane. Let's G (2022) twitter link

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