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The word 'shuggie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shuggieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.7443
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 107.4 42 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
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 shuggie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Canna wait tae read Shuggie Bain https://t.co/MmW7HCXITI (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
sna awfy pleased tae find Wee Shuggie on ma doorstep, hoppin aboot on page 19
windolene fer twa centuries. Shuggie pulled the van tae a halt an on page 20
Shuggie lunged forward. I wis still h on page 21
Shuggie said, "We'll jist get startit on page 22
"Richt, Bob," Shuggie nodded tae me. "Grab the tap on page 23
Also on pages 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
42 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
A loast intrist an went hame Shuggie Tocher dun the same An’ Jaz
1 matches

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