A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'clyack'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
clyackOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.962
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
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
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 clyack in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
1. THE CLYACK SHAIF
hinmaist boorich o corn, the clyack shaif, wytin tae be sheared,
e its preens at nicht. An the clyack wis bun an pleated wi bonnie
ble park far she'd liftit the clyack sheaf, raxxin teem an bare in
4 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
//t.co/4D1vm3NJZf Today it is Clyack – do you know what it means?(2017)

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena The Spikk o the Nor East Leid, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Doric, poetry
h, contermaschious, smarrach, clyack, strushil, braa
1 matches

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