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The word 'skeck'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
skeckOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5152
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 209.2 15 2
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 skeck in Corpus

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South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ocht mair nor a blether nor a skeck, on page 11
o swait an ettlins, skeck a lang grey rope on page 60
s doon. Yince an fir aw hae a skeck at the lot on page 77

3 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
d blether ??? so hae yersel a skeck through the @CateranEco #Lain(2020)
on @bbcradioulster Hae a wee skeck ablo, 'available for 28 days'(2020)
eish Cheers Susan Ah'll hae a skeck an lug in. Aye, thon makars e(2020)
ent (English) poem, hae a wee skeck ablo (ane o ma faves) htt(2020)
Hae a skeck owre by at @OorVyce whae hae (2020)
and 7 other occurrences.

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