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The word 'seevin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
seevinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.23010
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 4
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
DUN - Dundee 95.6 9 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 74.9 6 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of seevin in Corpus

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Shetland

Williamson, Christie Slainte Bard, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2014) Shetland, poetry
tree hunder an seevin year
1 matches

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
in bairns aboot letter twinty seevin. It's gye cool. We hae Finzea (2021) twitter link

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Een twa three fower five six seevin on page 186

4 matches

(South) East Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
sit whin he wiz anely thritty-seevin. Awbesit heez awa, Ah still h on page 78

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 57 - Twa Auld Men, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
a still hae bricht memories o seevin weeks lang schuil holidays ta on page 136

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
the Seevin Sisters an the Ploo,
1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
When I wis seevin year auld my parents eventual
1 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Afore we hud ri telly, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Saltcoats, prose
we hud ri telly, a wis mibbes seevin yur auld an' a wis in ri kitc
an' a packet a' papers. A wis seevin', a done is a wis telt birrit
r lerrum furget it, birra wis seevin' yur auld an' rey shin went r
3 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
runner Fronted up wi’ jeest seevin hunner It wisnae whit a hid c
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
d mosscovert gravestane aboot seevin feet tall he took a deep brai on page 66
an hae nae human contact fer seevin year! on page 86
de o, he'd bide there fer the seevin year an come oot the ither en on page 87
m back. It had been Midsummer seevin year earlier that he had ente on page 89
is een dull. The Davie Gray o seevin year afore had cheengit some on page 90
Also on pages 92
9 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
rtsome account o her firstlin seevin years. We hear, first haund, on page 54

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
ix is therteen. An fowr times seevin is - Och! Ah'll ne'er get ta on page 18
eet," said Five, in a sulk; "Seevin joogied ma elbow." on page 76
Seevin flung doon eis brush, an hed on page 77

6 matches

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