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The word 'chyce'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chyceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus165225
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 65.6 6 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 35.5 14 4
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 25 4 2
GLA - Glasgow 22.8 5 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.6 11 9
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 83.4 6 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 chyce in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
uckle attention tae ilka wird chyce (an gies ye whit excuse ye ne
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
an luckily ye'll hae plenty o chyce. If yer atein oot, try a chee on page 6
ch, Dublin is the the perfect chyce for a lang wikend awa. on page 7
Distillery offers veesitors a chyce o daein a whisky tastin, a wh on page 8
nty. Aa three mak the perfect chyce for a lazy daunder on a fine on page 16
e yersel, Amboise is a common chyce. on page 18

5 matches

Uri, Antonia The birds an the bees, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
Bairdie’ — wis the name o chyce. It juist seemed sae fittin c
1 matches

General Northern

Templeton, Sheila Tales Fae The Doric Side - La Bella Rebelle, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
but tae your chyce o tune - Auld Stuart's Back on page 63

1 matches

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
quate Yer tammie-nid-nod whit chyce dae A hae bit tae flee back t on page 3

1 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
e reply aince mare, I ken the chyce is mine.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
meant at een Mr Green hed nae chyce but tac step in. A psychiatri on page 83

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
strel, wis an apt an poignant chyce in this the 300t anniversar o
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
ntury norries aby, we hae the chyce atween gaun back tae a tradit
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
hing for that a body haes nae chyce) an "dree" (tae pit up wi som
up wi something as a maiter o chyce). Altho baith in spaek an tra
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
aither nor onie kinna logical chyce.
1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 63 - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
festival. She wis spilet for chyce o coorse an haed tae lea oot
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
udiences e'er syne wi a braid chyce o plays, some o thaim written
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
Elaine Forrest. A weel walit chyce o paintins tae tak the gate w
s on his anniversar week. Her chyce wis Burns' Epistle To A Young
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
e richt tae respeck for thair chyce tae haund doon thair language
teerers na-says, bi thair ain chyce an bi example, thair ain huma
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
an aw. Syne it's a weel seen chyce as the buik for this year's r
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Sang, Tradition (this month's chyce for Makar's Neuk), Autobiogra
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
s oor awn. An is this juist a chyce o symbol? on page 5

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ut the feck o them - tho the chyce o grub ye haud wisnae onicthi on page 56

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
guid man wesna Tittie's erest chyce. Durand the weir shae listit on page 2

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“Whit ither chyce hiv we got?” she demandit f
ingin. There seemt tae be nae chyce bit tae sit doon for a bit on
ssure her that he’d had nae chyce. Raggle tane that for grantit
3 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
haed wir chyce refreshment an bundlet wir be on page 52

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Which means it'll be a chyce on page 117

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Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
chuise tae uize juist the tae chyce tho. Thai picks whit bodie th
is gien out again til saicont chyce candidates. This cerries on t
2 matches

Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
derend thir fowk will see the chyce they face lichtit noo in star
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
nd the law had made the wrang chyce in takkin them awa frae the c on page 162

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Nae chyce o mines: ma lot tae breed on page 18

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
s a backgrun tae Agnes Lyle's chyce o sang. She expresses the wer on page 69

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
n retrospeck, the deleiberate chyce at Stage 4 atween mither-tong
ate-like. The maist conscious chyce for the feck o screivers was
vernacular, an haein made the chyce o the vernacular, atween a La
3 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ory Scots we canna evite that chyce.
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
or aa that dirk(ness) wis the chyce o Gavin Douglas an William Du
1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
s forced intae an aither-or chyce atween twa identities, it’s
1 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
Aye but it's no yer chyce tae mak, is it? https://t.co/(2019)

@Chazzbat tweeted
@FrankOctopus Guid chyce o bevvy ??(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
at schuil. An when Ah hae the chyce on page 13
through their ain chyce - they hae nae faitherly ric on page 20
ny Odyssey except the richtfu chyce. on page 23
somewhaur else, bide here fae chyce an dootless on page 31
she'll speak fir aw chyce with the vyce o constituency. on page 77

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