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The word 'che'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cheOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21410
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
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 che in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
«che disna like dugs! Weel, she ne on page 25

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ntrin joab – myndin the crèche mebbe, or gairdnin, or haunin
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
the spills, che smog and the smoke. on page 19

1 matches

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
Ah looked at the passage and che words blurred. Ah tried tae s on page 7

3 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
che yin wha turfs his boy oot the on page 111

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
. It wis agreed chat this wis che hea bet an they act at at. Aw on page 42
Tam had been on the rigs syne che verra stairt an haud nivver b on page 49

2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
he staff quarters,' says Mo. "Che caravan right in the far corn on page 19

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
. "Fuck sake, we runnin a créche noo, troops?' some dafty says on page 25

1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Cried o che pochi, brocht ice-cream on page 51

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Five sonnets o Cecco Angiolieri (1250-1319), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Becchin' amor! - Che vuo', falso tradito? on page 45

2 matches

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