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The word 'creak'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
creakOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.11310
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 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of creak in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
tairs, missin the step wi the creak, flittit ben the lobby like g
1 matches

South Northern

Robb, Lydia AUNTIE BEAN UNDRESSES, (Association for Scottish Literary Studies 2005 ISBN: 978-0948877698) Doric - Arbroath, poetry
the creak o her styes. Silk on page 123

1 matches

(South) East Central

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
abnormal amount o' noise. Ilk creak 'n' crack making me cringe. A
1 matches

West Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
Creak! The auld stairs screamed as
1 matches

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
up, houndin the hoose wae ery creak, followt by a crack as if the
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
The trees creak and twist above us as we stoa
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Mannie, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
dawn wis risin she woke tae a creak on the stair. She sat up. The on page 11

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
s Da before he opened it wi a creak. He always hud a wee lie oan on page 40
The creak o the door echoed as we looke on page 56
Lauren's wheelchair wheels creak like nails oan a chalkboard w on page 90

3 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
s jokes sae auld, they almost creak on page 9

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
hir coat an watchin the swing creak bak an forth as Hughie lay ow on page 41
Maisie stapt an listened. A creak. The clip o court shoen. The on page 42

2 matches

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