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The word 'sleeping'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sleepingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.91613
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
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 sleeping in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
NIN AWA! Bastardin spider was SLEEPING hinging fae twa legs! #feckin (2018) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Hivin trouble sleeping an Holland & Barrett wifie su(2016)
ave hound - she has taen tae sleeping in wifie’s cheir fin she isn(2019)

Mid Northern B

Dunnett, Nathan The Auld Asylum, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
a beets and made sure a hid a sleeping bag. Dexter hid been doon tae
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
a Sleeping Beauty transformit on page 21
be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping' ~ The Heart of Midlothian, W on page 24

2 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Mummy: Ah'm fed up sleeping upright. Ah ... on page 40

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
Are you sleeping pet, I need to take your read
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
THE SLEEPING GENT on page 59

1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
thay snuggled in thair kips, sleeping soundly neist tae thair bleez
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
zombie Shane is still there, sleeping upstairs" "Yer a baldy cunt l on page 3

1 matches

General Central

McNulty, Victoria Hame, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
your eyelashes when you’re sleeping
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
A really should be sleeping now, so nicht nicht!.......zz(2016)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A roaring fire wi sleeping dug on page 14

1 matches

@officialAliRed tweeted
a family of four (wee yin is sleeping ??), at The Padaro ?????? htt(2020)

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