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The word 'cheir'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cheirOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7124
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 cheir in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
special cream tae the leather cheir tae avoid cracking, wis, “Cw(2019)
taen tae sleeping in wifie’s cheir fin she isnae keeking! https:(2019)
Sae ah wis stannin on a cheir, changing a licht bulb, fin t(2019)

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
un in a neuk 9 the muckle bow-cheir, haaflins claverin tae hersel on page 9
spraachl't back intil the bow-cheir, takin the kittlin an the wou on page 10
it aa fan I sclim up onnen a cheir, aa forbye the pairt ahint th on page 14
s an aal Yowe sittin in a bow-cheir, wyvin, an nous an nans devaa on page 69
wye o't. Lat's see, is iss a cheir? Fegs, it's gat brainches, I on page 75

5 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
r grippit hir clutchie frae a cheir.
gied a cheir an waffed thair bunnets as th
2 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
ament whan he died in hiz ain cheir on the verandae, efter haein on page 2

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
member hinkin that the tops o cheir umbrellas looked like the lil on page 42

1 matches

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