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The word 'screeching'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
screechingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.933
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 131 1 1
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
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
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 screeching in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

Harvey, Lewis Crash, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
n a hell let loose. There wis screeching o brakes and peeping o horns
1 matches

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
wis aw greeting, boking, and screeching.
1 matches

Ayrshire

McClelland, Ben Chicagof Island, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
had grey fur and gave another screeching yell. They seemed tae use gro
1 matches

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