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The word 'sweethairt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sweethairtOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.242
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 4.4 1 1
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) 27.8 2 1
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 sweethairt in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
up wis it wirth pyin Meg, his sweethairt, a veesit, wi his maister awa
1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
local fairmer wis merryin his sweethairt, he rade oot wis his rag-tag on page 51

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
eckin fire jist as you an yer sweethairt on page 11

2 matches

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