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The word 'chuse'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chuseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91312
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 30 3 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of chuse in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
, she'd hae bin hard caad tae chuse atween them if push cam tae s
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e sayed in Chinese, “Ye sud chuse yer freins wi care.” She sc
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
Aye, A think if I wis gonnae chuse ma ain gien name, A’d pick
1 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
hat aye the waukrife heid sal chuse, on page 10

1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
rmers, 'Yi hae thrie weys tae chuse. Yin, sweir tae serve me as K on page 14

1 matches

Bleiman, David Lallans 104 - Ae Fond Kush, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
Rabbie, ye'd be the yin Ah'd chuse, on page 38

1 matches

Sangster, Maureen Lallans 104 - The Wild Burrds Shaw, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
Burrds nae free tae chuse the oor on page 75

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ots dialecks, fowk tendit tae chuse frae amang thae three the ane on page 9

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
'r a kittle muivement, an the chuse o wurds is unco-leukin. An me on page 91

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Secession wus tha road the' chuse. on page 28

1 matches

General Ulster

HRConnect Candidate Wittens Beuklet, (Northern Ireland Executive 2025) Ulster, government
puty Furst Meenester, wha wul chuse on page 8

2 matches

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
h ir British ir baith es they chuse quyhles on page 58

1 matches

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