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The word 'sleepan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sleepanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.1237
ORK - Orkney 129.2 13 5
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 351.6 10 2
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
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sleepan in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gallows Ha - Dance tae the End, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
The night when thir sleepan soond in thir bed on page 27

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
on't get a new pair, ah'll be sleepan in me vest." on page 46
ys that his new peedie boy is sleepan weel at nights. We cheek him on page 64

2 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
n, fer the plant tae idle the sleepan oors. Sheu lillilus tae her m on page 45
n tae morneen, wi Darling yet sleepan, Astrid busks an leuks fae po on page 49
heu draas the bonnie visietor sleepan. on page 93
sheets like a bab or a corp, sleepan yet whan sheu poors watter on on page 101
p her awey. Brenna's taen her sleepan sister oot fer a waaltz. on page 135

6 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
addan strips o colour tae sleepan fields on page 112

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The night when thir sleepan soond in thir bed on page 152

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Lallans 67 - Fower Poems efter Rilke, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Orkney, poetry
thee sleepan powls and rosy mulls? on page 58

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
wls hiv suddenly changed thur sleepan pattern.’ The newsreader al
1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
- They wir aa sleepan on page 114

4 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
osie wis sittan between them, sleepan, an e ither two wis usan id a on page 64
"KE Moosie is sleepan again," sade e Hatter, an he on page 67
ly opened his eyes. "Ah wisna sleepan," he Sade in a hoarse, weak v on page 69
added e Hatter, "or ee'll be sleepan again before id's done." on page 70
walked off: e Moosie started sleepan richt away, an neither o e it on page 72

6 matches

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