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The word 'chaain'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chaainOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.173
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 52.5 5 1
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)
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 chaain in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
tae a richt milk-coo. I'll be chaain the cweed neist."
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
at a table. 'Fit's aat ye're chaain awa at, man?' spiert Jamie. on page 42
The man kept chaain awa. on page 43

3 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
thered near a clump of trees, chaain awa at the lang girse. The su on page 15
or a meenit or twa lik he wis chaain teuch beef. Syne he spak, an on page 19

2 matches

General Northern

Johnston, Mary Lallans 82 - Life Spang, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
a vyce wi bowfin, ma teeth wi chaain wull aa hae worn deen. Aa I k on page 26

1 matches

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