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The word 'sleet'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sleetOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.54819
ORK - Orkney 59.6 6 3
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 84.2 19 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 2
EDN - Edinburgh 31 5 2
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 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) 58.1 1 1
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 sleet in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Issy Gallows Ha - Birlan wae the wather, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ir left and grip the hail and sleet, on page 32

2 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Sleet drivan in on page 18

1 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ir left and grip the hail and sleet, on page 153

2 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
blinding sleet and snaw - winter's dirge on page 111

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
Sleet on page 28

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
urr te a stanstill. Win-blawn sleet nippit it is chiks an the caa on page 74

1 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
The nicht it’s dingin’ on sleet an sna’,
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ll shear yer corn mang sna an sleet
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Sna an sleet shower in the bloo toon - aa(2020)

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
ot amon' the heather sna' an' sleet on page 13

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
ears ir fa'in like I' rain an sleet on page 90

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Sleet an sna nae a gweed sicht
Ere's shoors o hail, sleet an en sna.
Shoors o rain, sleet, en it dings on sna.
Shoors o sna, aye an some o sleet.
4 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Blawin throo sleet an sometimes hail.
Starts awa wi win an shoors o sleet,
Ere is shoors o sleet an some o hail,
Aye shoors o sleet bit maistly sna.
Intae us sleet an weet, weet, sna.
14 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
A cannae thole the snaw an sleet
wi hail an sleet an snaw.
Sunday, snaw an sleet.
o storms o hail, or sleet, or rain.
4 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Snah, sleet, shinty, tatties, mince on page 121

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ular blasts o rain, wi bits o sleet an hail comin thru it, jist t on page 64
irections an was fu o rain an sleet an wee stingin bits o hail. S on page 68

3 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
Aff the nicht Firth, sleet bickered, on page 112

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 73 - Wrack, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
is haimless here. A skelp o sleet pits on page 77

1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
k! This time we stood, in the sleet, as lang as we could thole th
d up saw his red coat bit the sleet bleared ma een sae A couldnae
blood an' sleet baith blear my eyes,
3 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
There's sleet fawin fae a dark sky. The fat on page 38
art the long trudge home. The sleet hus stopped, but the ground i on page 41

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
an snaw, or the chill claws o sleet an tain, micht snatch her pre on page 71

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
Tha michty space! In Lapland sleet or Cyprus heat Finisterre or on page 59

1 matches

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