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The word 'cuckoo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cuckooOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7157
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cuckoo in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
wee timmer mou an craiked “Cuckoo, Cuckoo.” Bit yon wis aa it
, Cuckoo.” Bit yon wis aa it iver sa
spring, an insteid o cryin “Cuckoo”, aa that it
3 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
The Cuckoo On Foswell Hill
a lanely cuckoo called fae Foswell hill,
A lanely cuckoo called fae Foswell hill,
a lanely cuckoo called fae Foswell hill.
the lanely cuckoo called fae Foswell hill.
5 matches

West Central

McDonald, Alistair Lallans 59 - Huntegowk, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Netherlee, poetry
Sing tae me, cuckoo, loud an clear;
Sing tae me true, sing “Cuckoo”.
Caa “Cuckoo” loud as the best, then
3 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
o' a creepy Wan Flew O'er the Cuckoo's Nest thing. There's none o' on page

1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
heard a Whaup (Curlew), Gowk (Cuckoo) or Laverock (Skylark) recent(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Hume, David Aince the corncrake caa’ed, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster - Ballycarry, poetry
A hae hear’d the cuckoo caa
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
wheeked an apostrophe intae "cuckoo's" ana! @celticissimo (2015) twitter link