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The word 'shakes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shakesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11712
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 14.6 6 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 30.7 6 4
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of shakes in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
ructor, that Vic wis no great shakes. on page 8

1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
lik The Wind that Shakes the Barley rin backarts on a on page 3

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
neck ae a drawstring bag. She shakes the bubbles aff on page 1

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Shakes the loose rocks with steep de on page 3

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Craig stands up and shakes ma hand. "It's gid on page 73
Aldo shakes his heid. "Then there's last on page 136
He shakes his heid. on page 170

3 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
An shakes ma wab wi blawin? Does he pla on page 59

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ie says as he grabs ma hand n shakes it hard wae his big paw. The on page 22

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
ss fae me, Siobhan smiles and shakes her heid. When Siobhan smiles on page 1

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
t noise, creating a glow that shakes the air, seemin 'ae pulse a t on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
hem blastin their horns - an shakes his heid. ‘Right, ah’ll g
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Screwin his eyes at me, he shakes his heid, clearly unimpressed
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ftie than ye look.’ Pearcey shakes his heid in grim acceptance a
1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
An shakes ma wab wi blawin? Does he pla on page 44

1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
w dae folk no lift er stuff! *shakes heid*(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Wi nieve that niver shakes on page 34

1 matches

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