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The word 'slockit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
slockitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.175
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 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
NEC - North East Central 91.7 2 1
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 slockit in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
the shutters doon an cruisies slockit. Anunder her blanket, ower th on page 161

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
DE SLOCKIT LICHT for Adam on page 42

2 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
d in 1850. An wi dat Norn wis slockit. on page 15

1 matches

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
greetin deday, de light isna slockit joost yet. https://t.co/WeVoU(2020)

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 2), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
t o Scottish independence wis slockit bi defeat at Fawkirk. Some hi
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
Aldivalloch is ae mair slockit licht in the aye growin derkn
1 matches

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