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The word 'choke'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chokeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus82620
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 21.9 2 2
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 18.2 4 4
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
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) 125.5 4 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of choke in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
the freezin watters rose tae choke the life oot o them.
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
e liked tae gag, ye liked tae choke! on page 19

1 matches

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
the inhabitants choke on page 19

1 matches

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - Iss place isnae big enuch for the baith o us , (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
aa'll swallah ye, choke, on page 78

1 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
uder92 @siferry8 Yas let them choke on some quavers https://t.co/(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
h is it's inevitable; we will choke when oor big moment comes alo on page 23
seemed as if he wis aboot tae choke even jist speakin his name. " on page 34
This compels me tae choke oan ma beer. "You?" ah ask "S on page 132
er" ah tell him. As ah almost choke oan a Dorito. on page 176

4 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
chin, chip, chitter, choice, choke, chop, chose, chow, chuck, ch
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
s case, ah hope they bastarts choke, on page 68

1 matches

Edinburgh

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
ah’m no sure how ah dinnae choke oan him.
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
d up his heidBrandy noo-Don't choke him-How ye daein, wee man? Wh on page 39

1 matches

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
em all those crumbs made them choke and die and infected them, br on page 36

1 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo, (Itchy Coo 2017 ISBN: 978-1785300592) Central - Glasgow, weans
h'm offski, wee man, afore Ah choke." on page 9

1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ot another few lines that wid choke a fuckin elephant. Cunts.
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
heid-Gie him a brandy-dinnae choke him nou-- on page 37

1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
ch ye till ye cannae move, or choke ye till yer blue. on page 34

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
I'd choke on it. on page 34

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
eis heid-Brandy noo - Dinnae choke on page 37

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
tae choke yin anither on page 80

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
nae tist thirs, an the weeyin choke't an had tae bae hut a slap o on page 29
haes heid up-Brandy nooDimnae choke 'im-How wus it, oul fella? Wh on page 39
it, fur a minute ir twa, sabs choke't haes voice. "Same es if hae on page 98
n baegun, in a voice sometims choke't wi sabs, tae sing this: on page 106

4 matches

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Proota Field, (Facebook 2021) Ulster, poetry
So as naw tae choke the rest o them before the th
1 matches

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