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The word 'chappie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chappieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.177
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 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 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 chappie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Gauld, Ilene Ilene Gauld - Piper and Poet, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Keith, weans
So, off gings the chappie tae check ees stock.
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
chappie is drunk". Jonsar wis wearin
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
ter grants eternal life tae a chappie on page 55

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
ied Chung an bein an Oriental chappie, his command o English wis ge on page 23

1 matches

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
@mathie_dan Ah think this chappie must hae booked intae Carstai(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
Chap-Door-Run? Chappie? https://t.co/hujn2Se9yk (2020) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Cheeky Aussie chappie, keeps the punters happy, on page 107

1 matches

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