A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'cluck'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cluckOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.243
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cluck in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
the wire fence. The chickens cluck-clucked aroond the henhouse l on page 72
n, mebbe no - she caa'd them cluck-clucks. I wis speakin fer Bil on page 74

2 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
y for thae wans that kiss and cluck. on page 71

1 matches

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Wee Broon Hen, (no publisher recorded 2022) Ulster, poetry
hen she laid an egg she would cluck wi glee,the noise o a happy b
1 matches

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