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The word 'chuckle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chuckleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4116
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 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 chuckle in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
This made me chuckle. Fit wi nae fitba supporters (2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ae the kitchen and huv a soft chuckle tae masel: "Boays will be boa on page 40
relief. He jist gees a faint chuckle and seems tae appreciate and on page 78
"Ah make you sick?" ah chuckle. on page 136
This threat gees me a soft chuckle. "And what um ah gonnae hear, on page 146

4 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
it ah wisnae concerned. A wee chuckle escaped mah lips as ah stared
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
Craigy hus a chuckle tae himself ‘’Bruce kin g
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
The lads aw huv a wee nervous chuckle, lookin at each other. Ah've on page 11

1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
aw this and had tae hae a wee chuckle! xxx http://t.co/cKEDuuQdRk(2014)
ay!!!! Hope it gies you a wee chuckle xxx http://t.co/fw9lpTpYuk(2014)

South East (Borders)

@Woodwinecoolers tweeted
@thecarolemalone Yer havin a chuckle ain't yeh https://t.co/Bd6jxj (2022) twitter link