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The word 'sleeps'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sleepsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.44716
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 3
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 18.2 4 3
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 39.8 30 4
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 sleeps in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
p you tae sleep the deepest o sleeps, block oot the thowts in yer on page 23

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
And a crisis o identity - he sleeps amang the kye. on page 50

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Sleeps wae his glesses oan Under the on page 20

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
lp you to sleep the deepest o sleeps, block oot the thowts in yer on page 77

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Only 360 ish more sleeps til da next Shetland Folk Fes(2014)

Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
Noo Jock aneth Craig Shannoch sleeps
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Sleeps in a wee but an ben on page 188
She sleeps alow on page 189

2 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
ts we howked. On oor luves an sleeps on page 41

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
A bairn sooks his thoomb, sleeps doucely, on page 19

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Precious Sarah sleeps in her native earth, on page 17

1 matches

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
ar her it peace. Even fan she sleeps I still hear her mumbliin awa
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
An sleeps in soond o beautiful rain. on page 24

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
boot how much your generation sleeps!" Aonghas is fulla beans, he on page 3

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
ives o toil slipt past atween sleeps in a mist on page 37
Uneasy sleeps the heid o he on page 125

2 matches

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Precious Sarah sleeps in her native yirth,
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
the lowe o a lamp, even as he sleeps.' on page 78

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 73 - Guest, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Sunday nicht sleeps like a doo on page 61

2 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
but she sleeps on, sways with lax complexity on page 91

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
ter o a book! Nicht nicht and sleeps well! xxx(2014)
ning full o exercise! Orf tae sleeps now! @JeffBrazier http://t.co(2015)
....ahem morning! I'm orf tae sleeps tae before gettin up in 7hrs!(2015)
ehearsals are goin guid? Noow sleeps well. Nicht nicht! xxx ??????(2015)
ote tae self! When you go tae sleeps earlyish the nicht b4 and wak(2015)
and 21 other occurrences.

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