A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'taing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
taingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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 taing in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
doon the taing o Hellay, airm o the kirk, on page 17
axan oot the tap o the mintie taing o the mintie staetion, tae ha on page 66

2 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
o the mintie taing o the mintie staetion,
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
wider as I geeng, an Fiorda Taing on page 34

1 matches

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
k alang da banks an up apo da Taing, an Geordie guid dere tö, bu
1 matches

General Northern

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
@tourscotland Moran Taing Sandy, will raise a dram tae (2019)

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
hir raspin tung fir the salt taing o it. An whiles she lickit a on page 14

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
cademy Fit a rare tune. Moran taing.(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
eritage Glé mhath agus moran taing. Ah'll lug in suin. Wis forfo(2020)
@AileenCeol Beautiful, moran taing(2020)