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The word 'strikin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
strikinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21413
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
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 6
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of strikin in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
like a knock or A was naarhan strikin twal. At laist, A haed tae wa
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The porage revolution: Hou porage cam tae mak Scotland habitable, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
he English in the early days, strikin oot fae their ain fertile cre
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ur they bide. Ane o the maist strikin aspecks o place-names in Scot
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
e bairnies we'll gie ower the strikin
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
lessness we're that prone tae strikin are wan quick wind-chynge awa
1 matches

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
the child wis drenched ‘n a strikin crimson liquid which lookt aw
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
is ain wey at burnin barns an strikin terror intae the herts o puir on page 37

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
hawin chocolate in the hope o strikin it lucky. Noo, coorse, I'm ba on page 37

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Tale o Three Dugs, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
Soon the sodger realised that strikin twa spairks fae the tindel-bo on page 40

1 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
the thocht o strikin it lucky. Syne she jaloused t
1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
aur, bit the seimilarities is strikin: at first a back-an-forrit fl
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
the reid baunner haes been a strikin, though mibbies nae langer su
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
nywan else think Jack bears a strikin resemblance tae Castiel? #Sup(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
strikin sperks frae the cobbles, on page 22

1 matches

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