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The word 'skeen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
skeenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.483
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 26.6 6 1
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) 13.9 1 1
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 skeen in Corpus

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Shetland

Sinclair, James Makkin Hame, (Shetland For Wirds 2018) Shetland, poetry
Her thin skeen streetched ower eddy an under
1 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
Loch Skeen
up tae Loch Skeen an wad Trev an masel lik tae
ggit years o crack aboot Loch Skeen, bit A nar
wants tae mak ower tae Loch Skeen in the forenuin.”
Skeen. Thare was a soporific feelin
6 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
which are skeen deep, on page 40

1 matches

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