A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'champ'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
champOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.31710
ORK - Orkney
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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 98.4 7 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of champ in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
iss a filey back. Da Duncing Champ (afore I wis a da, Fit a stoo(2020)

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
the aeons hou eithlie Ye cud champ me i the blent o an ee on page 3

1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"How Ah'm a super long-jump champ on page 15

1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
d tae mix some o it in wi oor champ whiles,’ says ane o the hen
it wis mixt intae the pigs’ champ. The early aipples wis nou tu
2 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
facin yer fears like a bloody champ.
1 matches

Ayrshire

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 82 - Tecumseh, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Thay champ the gerse o yer deid. on page 87

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Slaver and slabber, champ and chaw on page 90

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
ocuses whase saffron they wid champ tae mak a daizzlin yella. But
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
inest, 85 now, @scotslanguage champ for decades, geeat poet. Gie (2020)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
hielin the morra for a feed o champ an #UlsterScots yarns. (2015) twitter link
boke. Ye cannae bate a feed o champ. @poleinbelfast @CiaranDunbar (2016) twitter link
ll hae him roond for a feed o champ an a hauf-yin o whuskey, then (2016) twitter link
a daicent feed o #UlsterScots champ an kail, @chefpaulrankin . I (2015) twitter link
Efter a feed o champ, my Da wull aye gie a quare r (2015) twitter link
and 2 other occurrences.