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The word 'cheep'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cheepOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21412
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 cheep 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

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
rkhoarse tae me, an eits fyne cheep tae run on page 69

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
eist, an ower wheezy tae even cheep. Fin Deirdre tried tae
s three tens?” Johnny wad cheep up “thirty Miss Broon” in
2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
an awa afore Ah could utter a cheep; he didna rin, he galloped, a on page 14

1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Tales Fae The Doric Side - Overheard at Wetherspoons, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
An ma da niver gaed a cheep. on page 32

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
cheat, check, cheek, cheeny, cheep, cheer, cheese, cherry, chest
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
in Scotland for the'r no onie cheep o the creenge frae her tae ha
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
- guid wee club there tae n cheep drink - o happy days (2020) twitter link

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
wis ower feart tae let oot a cheep, but juist trauchlit ahint he on page 44

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General Central

McLeish, Alistair Lallans 102 - Eco Cheil, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
No a cheep, he kept on pokn, In atween h on page 39

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
dinna gie a cheep on page 30

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McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
a lang meenit, there wisnae a cheep oot o onybody. on page 67

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
s is whit wey we divna hear a cheep back. Efter aw, the nearest s
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
and cheep sae quate naebody can hear us on page 19

1 matches

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