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The word 'shhh'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shhhOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.583
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of shhh in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Shhh! Dinnae clype tae wifie, but (2017)
Shhh! The spiking atween President(2018)
Shhh! Ah’m gyan tae be the new pr(2019)
Shhh! Ah’m gyan tae be the new Ee(2019)
Shhh! Ah’m gyan tae be the new lo(2019)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
This is a pure pile a shite. Shhh, said Charlene. O spirits of on page 107

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
indaes. There's a symphony ae shhh when suhin bangs in the wind on page 32
stlin comin fae the doorway. 'Shhh! Fuckin shut it!' A say. We a on page 33

2 matches

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