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The word 'schaw'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
schawOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.271
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
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 schaw in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
veisitit hir the day afoir ti schaw hir ma nyow uinifurm.
eth aither, bot didna wiss ti schaw dout afoir the twenes. At les
oun in hiz mynd, bot he didna schaw it an gaed but whan
sh border custumars. He didna schaw at he recognosced thaim in
auditour didna schaw onie inklin o hiz thochts as
5 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
s kent frae langsyne. Than ti schaw thair skeill, the wes the twe on page 42
e a mukkil ruid aw hissell ti schaw thaim whitwey ti dae it. Thai on page 45

2 matches

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