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The word 'peg'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pegOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.72927
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 4
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 9
SEA - South East (Borders) 36.3 3 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of peg in Corpus

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Shetland

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
o a bit o hard wid; no square peg in a roond hole for me but fa
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
na, pullin er jaicket aff its peg. "Ah'll see ye later." on page 24

1 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
uld hairy sack o a coat fae a peg doon ower me. Stinks o foost
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
gin in boorichs, swung frae a peg on the waa. The
1 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
s jaickets oan a gye shoogily peg(2015)

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
in responsible if she wis tae peg it in the next few seconds. on page 36

1 matches

Jamie, Kathleen Eemis Stane 1 - Whimbrel, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
ve aye kept hingin on an auld peg, and be awa... on page 5

1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@BenjyNtheMonkey Never used a peg in my life. LifeÂ’s to short.(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
Pacey @pele_anderson jake the peg husnae goat a look in lol (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
called Nicola skinny pins an peg legs an said she wis a pure s on page 76

1 matches

Wilson, Rab A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
Thon priceless peg yer coat wis hung,
1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
Her peg teeth an stinkin-gin braith a on page 9

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
sit aside her, or perch on a peg. It wis aa yin tae her.
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
back an mibbe take him doon a peg urr two.' on page 23

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
oan, an get ma bunnet fae the peg ahent the kitchen door, turni
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
an raxed for his cloak on the peg ahint the door. on page 32

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Coat's oan a shoogly peg on page 35

1 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - The Tartanic, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
culdnae say it wis an aff the peg designer hoose,
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
leuks tae be on a gey shoogly peg. Whan it comes tae the divide
1 matches

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
). Ben needed takin’ doon a peg or two. I’ll be the first t
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
˜yer jaiket’s on a shooglie peg’, ‘facts are chiels that
1 matches

@fourmenterian tweeted
the £ won't be on a shoogly peg, it'll be in free fall(2016)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@stewartbremner shoogly peg(2020)

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
thylsmith Guid point. Shoogly peg..... I dinnae think sae. ??(2018)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
e buy a pair o breeks aff the peg that'll actually fit ma wee s(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
. Dave Jackson an his marrow, Peg, wur yonner frae airlie on i
t exerceesin his dugs, him an Peg, hei
guid friends. Weel A mynd-on Peg’s muther, whae deyd it
3 matches

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