A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sheetin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sheetinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.964
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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 sheetin in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Grottie-Buckie and Tirli-Wirli, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997352) Shetland, weans
whitivver plaags or polythene sheetin gud dirlin aboot da hill. on page 8

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
sheetin owre Scapa on page 27

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
pens as much time at Balmoral Sheetin an fishin wi his line on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
nt the foreneen up thon knowe sheetin fite hares, an Meg Ramsay hid
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Eck pit doon a bit o plastic sheetin far ere wis nae rose bushes.
tae try an shape the plastic sheetin roon aboot the rose bushes.
2 matches

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