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The word 'checkit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
checkitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.9228
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 12 9 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 checkit 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

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
he'd looked up his ledgers an checkit his sums Ar fan in wi the los on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
wis gaun roon an roon es they checkit in, syne gaed throwe te Depar on page 41
te a wee coffee shop wi bonny checkit curtins an tablecloots te mat on page 71
foomigated - an mebbe aiven checkit oot fir widwirm. Oh! An ye de on page 73
s aul pipe, baccy tin an blue checkit bonnet. "Ye see, smokin wis 1 on page 88

4 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
The doorbell rung. Vi checkit her hair in the lobby mirror on page 27
wee mirror fae her hanbug an checkit her facefu o make-up. on page 57

2 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
He wears checkit breeks on page 180

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
r his Muse. He tane it oot an checkit the pooer level - he wad nee
achin thaim clearly. Beatrice checkit an recheckit her graith ... t
ldert leuk o a bairn unfairly checkit. “Oh, Raggle, Ah’m sorry,
3 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
ichtit his foreheid wi a reid-checkit napkin. on page 50

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
shuid be pruif-read an spell checkit afore settin furth. Coffin a on page 13
writin in Scots. Even if ye'v checkit the spelling o a word in the on page 16
wrutten in Scots can best be checkit throu its screivar speakin it on page 41
the feck o words will'a been checkit, makkin the lave o the docume on page 43
elangs an this shuid be cross-checkit if ye are writin in a parteec on page 50

6 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Vieve checkit cleidin an proud history, on page 63

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
ts on the TV an thair stories checkit agin ane anither. Whitever it
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
d gan roond wi Geordie is hei checkit his mowdie traps.
checkit at trap, thar in eet wis Geor
2 matches

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