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The word 'chinge'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chingeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92210
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 65.1 12 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 chinge 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.

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
ay, Ah hive tae say Ah widnae chinge him no nut even fur the Life on page 28

1 matches

Peffers, Bob The Pittin Doon o Guid Scots, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
ane leid fir maist athin bit chinge it fir oor Inglis spakin MSPs
1 matches

Peffers, Bob Whit Aboot Ma Ceevil Richts?, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, poetry
Kin wi no chinge tae ae new rule?
1 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
An' it made a nice chinge fae pie an’ peas.
1 matches

Kirk Jn, Albert Whit, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
An hou we cuid chinge wur feydom forby;
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Tae chinge their dance!
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
d Alice, seairt bi the sudden chinge, bit gled tae find hersel sti on page 20
eat Dinah: ah hink ye'd mebbe chinge yer mind aboot eats if ye cou on page 22
ans!" said Alice, hurryin tae chinge the conversation topic. "Are on page 23
an though it'd be as well tae chinge the subject. While she wis st on page 59
talk aboot sumhin else fir a chinge?" the Merch Hare pit in, yawn on page 71
Also on pages 73, 96, 98, 104, 122
12 matches

General Central

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
im tae a hoose an gave thim a chinge ae claes an put pitchforks in on page 47

1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
t @BiffEmojis Maybe we should chinge his title fae Prime Minister (2020)

@pmcm1355 tweeted
breks the rules they try tae chinge the rules tae get him aff wi (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
too late tae chinge thir wuys on page 95

1 matches

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