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The word 'cleeks'
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Use in varieties of Scots cleeks Occurrences normalised per million words Occurrences Authors
Dialect map - Usage over time
Total Corpus 3.7 12 8 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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
10.1
4
2
WCE - West Central
4.6
1
1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
1.3
1
1
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)
102.5
2
1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
28.1
2
1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)
Occurrences of cleeks in Corpus
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the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.
Shetland
Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter , (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
Bit Baabie is quick! Up shö cleeks da box, skuts in da door, see
1 matches
(South) East Central
Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178 , (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
unt the stobs hame..."an then cleeks thon tae the very crucifixion
1 matches
Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Cairryin Stream o Tradeetion , (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ca, wi some een mair shooglie cleeks than afore, an a strang shog
1 matches
Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142 , (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
its cleeks wi the penters, Henri Matisse
1 matches
Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76 , (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
Geordie Jooks Cleeks in wi Scottish County Press.
1 matches
West Central
Clark, Thomas Tae Kathleen Jamie, an ither Scots Scrievers , (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
rs left us, an howpin that it cleeks ontae somebody afore it snaps
1 matches
General Central
MacMinto, Gregor The Rhythms of Bratislava , (wordpress 2022) Central, blog
Abuin is some screen cleeks tae gie ye a saurin o Rytmy r
1 matches
South East (Borders)
The Westender Loupin Salmon , (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
muckle hooks tied tae sticks. Cleeks , a hink they ca'd thum. A yin
1 matches
Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes , (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Oor heids, then cleeks an noo tha toon's on page 26
1 matches
Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch , (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
r, hooaniver, I'm no sure the cleeks are as strang as yince they w
1 matches
General Ulster
Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur , (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
h daeins calendar, an sibness cleeks wi Noarth Amerikay. on page 50
(c) Foond effeirin cleeks atween tha cultùral centèrs on page 51
2 matches