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The word 'skreichin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
skreichinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4116
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 skreichin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
windaes an lat them hear her skreichin fin her birse wis up, or some
chestnut. A craa flappit awaa skreichin, pit oot that she'd disturbed
orbie, a jackdaw, a hawk an a skreichin magpie. An fin he drew near t
Steenhillock, the fite gulls skreichin at its dowp. Whyles, the ploo
4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
, her back booed like a brig, skreichin an spittin like a banshee, an
1 matches

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
it’s aw greetin, bokin, and skreichin fae then oan.
1 matches

West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
the wund o a mirk nicht skreichin frae the hielants... on page 137

1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
The skreichin ainly in appreciation fur the on page 52

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
cried the Mous, its wee vyce skreichin wi anger. "Wad you like cats on page 21
d hear the Queen's vyce ootby skreichin, an gaun her dinger. She had on page 44

2 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Skreichin lik a gawkie loon, on page 25

1 matches

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