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The word 'seelent'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
seelentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8266
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 32.8 3 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 25.2 19 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 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 seelent in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
inti the caal earth, leevin a seelent landscep ti sleep its ain sle on page 46

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
ot ower the grey North Sea; a seelent sentinel, souchin for depairt
Aathing wis seelent as the grave for aboot anithe
2 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Lallans 59 - Leids and Lieder: Walcome ti Helvetiscots, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
'das stille Leuchten' - the seelent illuminatioun. Watter wis his on page 5

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
it thaim that kensna yap; the seelent knaw!' on page 25
Faur awa, twa seelent raens watch on page 37

2 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Yet fawen seelent. on page 2
The seelent meidae on page 14
The seelent flooers on page 32
Ye hae flawn intae the seelent sky. on page 48
Seelent Man on page 66
Also on pages 72, 73
13 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
, an gif it cam efter lang an seelent thocht, he speired: on page 27
ae the drouth, wha wis sitten seelent afore a hantle bottles that w on page 44
An the baith o them were seelent. on page 60
An the baith o them were seelent. on page 62
The tod fell seelent an gowpit lang at the wee pri on page 69
Also on pages 87
6 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
The day, the steidin is seelent, nae beas, nae fock, an i tha
1 matches

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