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The word 'scraich'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scraichOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4147
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 2
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) 98.5 3 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 54.5 3 1

Occurrences of scraich in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
" speered Betty, luttin oot a scraich o a lach. on page 81

1 matches

West Central

Sands, Finn THE GHAISTLY FITBAW MATCH, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Next meenit, He heard a scraich tae. Et made him tremmle. His
1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
At scraich o dawn, on page 24

1 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
no tae scraich, no tae scraich, lat nane hear... on page 49
chap, chap! A scraich ootby, a craik o hinges. I he on page 50
men scraich orders, gas pipes hauch and h on page 91

4 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
The motor stairtit wi a scraich that altered the steady breit on page 36
on had him up ilka day at the scraich o dawn. He retuirnt hame at f on page 59

2 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
irms o Jenny as she lut oot a scraich that cud hae turnt the tide.
1 matches

General Ulster

Hanna, Wendy Gaitherin’ Purdas!, (Facebook - Schomberg Society 2020) Ulster, poetry
Mid October, scraich o’ dawn,
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
tha wee smaa oors, or at tha scraich o day, but ïf he fins thaim on page 92
Then at tha scraich o day, aa tha eldèrs o tha f on page 108
furst day o tha week, at tha scraich o day, tha weemen cum tae tha on page 111

3 matches

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