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The word 'sheugh'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sheughOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.33114
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.1 7 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 83.7 6 2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 327 2 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 459.1 7 3
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 204.9 4 3
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 50 5 4
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sheugh in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

(South) East Central

Peffers, Bob A Aboot Mid-Camps, Kirnitten, Bi East Cawther, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
a n hauf, yaird tae a cobbled sheugh rinin alang the fu length o t
hooses. At the doup end o the sheugh wis ane irn siever for a four
ne speers hoo they ca'ed it a sheugh, a they maun dae is wheech a
a pail o klerty watter doon a sheugh an listen, kis that's jist wh
t's jist whit it soonds like, Sheugh! Abin yone siever wis wan cas
7 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
an tuim us aw richt doon the sheugh o it - on page 77

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
r Scots oan baith sides o the Sheugh. Guid tae see Scots daein sae (2020) twitter link
pushin Ulster Scots owre The Sheugh. Weel duin! @USCN1 @HurchinHo (2020) twitter link
an taen owre an kept owre the Sheugh.(2020)
eaninhpoet As we say owre The Sheugh, better oot than in(2020)
Neebors oan baith sides o The Sheugh! (2020) twitter link

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
tae hear 'Baith Sides of the Sheugh' wi @StuartPoet tomorrow Tues(2020)
t 1pm for 'Baith Sides of the Sheugh' with award-winning Scots poe(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
ae Kryvyi Rih Filt, history's sheugh on page 30

2 matches

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
The sheugh's enless on page 2
A' ower the sheugh an dake. on page 4
er the slow blak watter o the sheugh, an awa on page 6
Bak then, afore the whun-hud sheugh on page 20

4 matches

Warwick, Matthew Fergie an Freens oan tha fairm, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2011) Ulster - Rural Mid-Antrim, weans
dunch, an cowps him intil tha sheugh! Ach naw! Jock's up tae his o on page 7

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Tha sheugh was fou o watter on page 16
ys spent hokin in some gumlie sheugh or clarry moss on page 50

2 matches

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Luks lik it cum strecht fae a sheugh, Tha brew's aa gray, on page 14

1 matches

NewtonLass Tay, (newtonlass.blogspot.com 2011) Ulster - Newtownards, poetry
Luks lik it cum strecht fae a sheugh,
1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Stuart Paterson frae ower the sheugh. A mano exceptional talent an on page 1

1 matches

Dee Har Tha Broon Troot, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
Doon in the sheugh,
1 matches

@HurchinHome tweeted
or hairst on this side of the sheugh? Check out seasonal words @sc(2016)
the proper pronunciation of "sheugh" #wordoftheday(2017)

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
Loupin the sheugh https://t.co/XDXhMAraOZ(2020)

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