A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sew'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sewOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sew in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I nivver sew me wild oats and that's the g on page 39

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Learnin tae sew on the Singer sewing machine. on page 47

1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
look gruesome. Could ye mebbe sew its lips thegither? It winna on page 66

1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@BatesMoira They dinnae sew pockets on yir shroud Moira ?(2020)
aker Bit ??some ?? The dinnae sew pockets on shrouds ??????(2020)

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
e make a stew wi’ mutton Ur sew a shurt oantae a button Bit j
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
try and hide some o my stuff, sew it into seams or something.â€
1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
e at hame tae ranter socks or sew a sark. on page 66

1 matches

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
e really needle tae dae that? Sew silly. ??(2019)

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