A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'shakk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shakkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.582
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of shakk in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
" I answered, as I startit ta shakk. on page 53
werwhelmed him. He startit ta shakk, grippin da steerin wheel, hi on page 57
I felt seek as I stude up ta shakk haands. I wis sure he didna r on page 58
in too, an dey wid staand an shakk demsels ipo da middle a da fl on page 93

4 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
yang tae the caff-hoose for a shakk o Auld Hornie's haun,' Jock D
e, they war pushed forrit tae shakk the haun o the Deil....the cl
Rise up guid wife an shakk yer feathers,
his heid. I niver saw a body shakk like yon. Mrs Dunlop doon at
4 matches

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