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The word 'cleg'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
clegOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4145
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 16 12 3
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cleg in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
unner if it’ll lead tae mair cleg-tipping an back gairden incin(2019)

General Central

Robertson, James Black Cuddy, (Scottish Book Trust 2019) Central, prose
her, no fae you. Awa tae the cleg and see whit he's sayin. on page 2
is there. Syne she did. 'Och, cleg, dinna bite. Dae whit ye like on page 3
t that seen tae. Crabbit auld cleg. At least they made her laugh on page 4

9 matches

Fitt, Matthew Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Mr Cleg on page 21

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 59 - A Stot an a Cleg, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, prose
A Stot an a Cleg
or you’re a stot an I’m a cleg, an bite!
2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
A cleg's nae geg, nor midgies tae. on page 37

1 matches

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