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The word 'chic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chicOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4117
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 21.7 4 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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 chic in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

Martin, Keiron Ma Worst Nicht Oot, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
his classes, gein the techers chic! A telt her a wid hiv a wird
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
my folks were very close tae Chic and his family so been expect (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ts sportin heroes the likes o Chic Charnley, Liz McColgan an Jim
(Chic Charnley p.5)
2 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
playin chic-a-nelly in yir wellies, on page 52

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
s in The Portland tellin auld Chic McHendry aboot the situation
So ah left Chic an went an goat a seat wae Th
2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ie corruption ay country club chic. ‘Ya pair ay fuckin arsehol
1 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
no tae go oan ma bloody erse. Chic McHendry fell oan this slope
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
chic charnley on page 3

1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
oned nicht o' Stanley Baxter, Chic Murray, Rikki Fulton, Lex McL(2020)

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