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The word 'sinking'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sinkingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 sinking in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Fingers numbing wae the sinking sun on page 26

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Banff Hospital an gid in wi a sinking feelin intae her guts. The fi
1 matches

Mid Northern B

Stewart, David Catch-Up Chapter 163 - Planning the Mystery Tour., (Facebook 2024) Doric, prose
ging o' The Sands of Time are Sinking" , Bella nervously explained
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
t pint (and yours) are flatly sinking on page 60

1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
ter leather and inner rubber, sinking doon the spike wae a gentle h
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
yes1108 exactly m8 - bbc now sinking faster than the titanic - bo (2020) twitter link

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