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The word 'chew'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chewOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.31414
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 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of chew in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
ht hae bitten makt than i can chew wi iss een. Ach weel. Nihin b(2019)

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@RealTimVine Sure is a mighty chew(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ally steal as much as a penny chew are huvin tae steal tae feed on page 21

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
"Juist a penny chew then mistur."
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ts, she said, Thir no worth a chew. Widyi mean, ah said. She sai on page 52

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
” Scilence, “Eh, can A re chew thae sentence please!” Howl
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
h've bit aff mair than ah cin chew. on page 12

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
"... and get a dozen chew baws on page 98

1 matches

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ake oot ma mobile phone as ah chew oan another moothful o stew.
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
steak the Deil's sel couldnae chew, on page 133

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Syriza, an the road aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
eans that the KKE wad raither chew aff their ain airms than wark
1 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
@ScottishBantrr awa ye n' chew mah banger! (2020) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
as they chew the cud in the Winter gloamin on page 163

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
n memmer o the femlie who cud chew ocht mair substantial than sp on page 18

1 matches

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