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The word 'chik'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chikOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7125
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 2
MNB - Mid Northern B 262.1 2 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 chik 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
he Jeweller kiss Joyce on the chik an syne spring up onna the ba on page 15
Jimmy." Ah tear rins doon ma chik as Ah drap a kiss on yer slee on page 23
sellin online...an she'd the chik te say aat | didna look onyth on page 62
..the impident bugger hid the chik on page 70

4 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
a chiel strick ye on e richt chik, turn e ither een till him te on page 12

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ma een an a tear rins doon ma chik - Mac's nae ere. on page 18
ilin te the pub', an he'd the chik te say at wis anither gweed r on page 19
She gies ma a kiss oan the chik an Ah ken she's winnerin iv s on page 47

3 matches

Mid Northern B

Harvey, Lewis Crash, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
e ca’d me a wee liar. Fit a chik she hid!! Then she hid the ch
she hid!! Then she hid the chik tae gi me anither detention.
2 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 90 - The Trump, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, poetry
The chik o im! 'Nemm me yir price!' on page 34

1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
nae cleikit a haad o the door-chik. She wes gettin a bittie deiz on page 23

1 matches

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