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The word 'creels'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
creelsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52415
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 39.3 3 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 72.7 4 1

Occurrences of creels in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
@Orkwoodturner Goldfish creels? ????(2020)

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
o a day settan creels. on page 19

1 matches

Sinclair, James Yarnin, (Shetland For Wirds 2001) Shetland, poetry
dat day we set an hailed twal creels
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
l, we heis haulin wer labster creels Sooth, bit thi hid tae be dee on page 10
we her, Ten ficets o fifteen creels fur parten's "n" labsters. An on page 19

2 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ent an they gaithered up twal creels o mealicks. on page 95

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
the picklin an ithers at the creels;
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat If I Catch Ye I'll Eat Ye, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ad back towards the toon, the creels for their bait thrown tae the
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
oranges, wee cork floats, an creels tae nab nippy wee partens an
e deep green sea tae drap the creels, splyter, splooter splat, ric
2 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
lobster creels.
1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 83 - Phantasmagoria, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
airs wi thir hevvy loads. The creels were pit oan thir backs, an w on page 70

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
ain traditional haund-wuiven creels. on page 85

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e spin; while Adam wove sauch creels tae cairry the peats an shair on page 56
rg - nou able tae cairt five creels o peat at a time tae the stac on page 57
d luik ablow the peats in his creels, for like his faither afore h on page 72

3 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
an the shore + nets an lines, creels an coggies. The neist dey Ah on page 11
h the benches wi smellie auld creels til the fishers waur menseles on page 14

2 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Andra’s Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
eident an skeely auld makar o creels, sings o a bluidy stour at se on page 50

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
as birlins, creels nor stake nets mauger here on page 33

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
The' ptt tha guid fish intae creels, but the' throwed tha baad yi on page 9

4 matches

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