A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'clipe'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
clipeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1108
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of clipe in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
aged tae skelp Jeemie a right clipe ower the back o the hand. Beu on page 16

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
t and I rattled his lugs wi a clipe. on page 42

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
here's aye somebody ready tae clipe An when news o his escapades on page 15

1 matches

(South) East Central

Gilmour, Rosie Bak Tae Schuil, (Scots Hoose 2015) Central, weans
Dinnae be a clipe and dinnae act glaiket
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e talk tae. I ken ye arenae a clipe. Even if ye were, wha is gaun
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@hic_non @janiesherb O’ you clipe ??(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Nyitterin bakes, an clipe-clash folk, on page 15
Or some fly clipe fae oor ain troubled times on page 20

2 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
al99 . Ony notion whaur I can clipe on the firemen? I hae taen a (2015) twitter link
ht - he disnae tweet. Dinnae clipe or he'll be efter me! (2015) twitter link