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The word 'sketch'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sketchOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.31111
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 3
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
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 sketch in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
strid staps an pits aside the sketch an draas fae memory the islan on page 94

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
on in 1880 o his The Orcadian Sketch Book, a little-read gem o lor
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
serves as a ineetial sketch o whit wye it wirks. Da on page 3

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
ye'd sketch, seekin, aye seekin somethin on page 88

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Dis oscar winning sketch fae Uyeasound Up Helly Aa is (2018)

General Northern

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
do an impression of the Limmy sketch above... ??(2020)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
Like a chaurcoal-sketch o saft fur on page 28

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
Riverside makin a wee pastel sketch o the brig. It wis a het sunn
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy No on BBC, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
k again. No juist a character sketch, that ane, but a never-aa cir
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
n asked us tae meet hur. Same sketch again, doon tae hur bit n nae on page 6

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
as talks lit the Rabbie Burns sketch oan Chewin the Fat. A mixed b on page 3

1 matches

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