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The word 'sheughs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sheughsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.894
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 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 sheughs in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
owd, the hips an hawes in the sheughs war skirps o bluid, an roon t
ter them hairse wi cauld. The sheughs bi the road war rinnin fu o b
sweet wi simmer girse. In the sheughs, the wild fite rose wad be bl
3 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
an beasts crined in bores an sheughs. Flichts o fire jinkit roon a
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
remember a nerra ferm road wi sheughs on either side. I remember se
rd drakes scurrying intae the sheughs as we drove intae the yaird.
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
travaigin through cundies and sheughs, a galoot on page 8
days, Sundays, reddin oot the sheughs an cundies, makkin watter cle on page 77

2 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Here’s the Weather, (Scottish Poetry Library 2017) Central, poetry
travaigin through cundies and sheughs, a galoot
1 matches

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