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The word 'trek'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
trekOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus51612
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 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 trek 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.

General Northern

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
ah was like locked in a Star Trek tractor beam and it was pulli
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
Blog Aye hid an early morning trek clear dry n nae, muckle win(2020)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
ht tae the local store they'd trek, Syne - roarin fu! on page 29
Doon tae the 'Co' she taks a trek, Tae pit her case, on page 32

2 matches

Steele, Gregor When Scotty said “Scunner”, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
gran’s, we wir watchin Star Trek,
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
eils is restit fae thair last trek. There an aafu hantle o fowk
eils is restit fae thair last trek. There an aafu hantle o fowk
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ge uni fur butchers. It’s a trek fur a bit ae meat but these j
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
LV. It's keepin us gawn as we trek through the frozen field, aw on page 16

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
Me and Robert trek tae the bar and nuzzle a wee on page 1

1 matches

General Central

Goodbrand Saunders, Donald Lallans 67 - Twa Owresettins frae Heine, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Listen! I hear the trek-trek-trek o them on page 55

3 matches

Perrie, Walter Lallans 73 - The Tod an the Stoat, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Ye'd trek a wearie mile an mair on page 53

1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
ot Ah cannae comment oan Star Trek films Ah'm afraid. Ye'll need (2019) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
bi the lucks ae thum, and ma trek tae the station is suddenly t
1 matches

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