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The word 'creakin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
creakinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71513
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of creakin in Corpus

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Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
y, and da 'Meerie Meggie' was creakin an bucklin in da turbulent se
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
The bedroom door made a creakin soun an a black heid appeart on page 64

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
den stoor frae the dowp o the creakin cairt that duntit ahin great
1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
id fir centuries. (Soond of a creakin coaffin lid bein lufted.) Phe on page 40

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
e gunales, the auld truck wis creakin an groanin, bit
1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
o’ listenin’ tae yer train creakin’ wa’ar nor th tinman, we an(2018)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
almost hear her brittle bones creakin as she turns roond. on page 140

1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
s if sensin somethin tae. Th' creakin didnae stoap. It's wasnae me.
h mynd stairted tae race. Th' creakin. Th' bruise. Th' silence. Som
2 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
creakin, reachin airms on page 11

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
fu o CREESH - tae creesh her creakin joints. on page 31

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
chatter, and the crankin and creakin o rides. on page 32

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
tit heid, e'en nou. Efter aw, creakin yetts hings lang. Bit leid da on page 9

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Ma joints are creakin mair an mair, on page 52
The creakin an the crackin on page 53

2 matches

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