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The word 'slep'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
slepOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3105
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 229.8 7 2
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of slep in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
idsel, an began singan in ids slep "ePwinkle, twinkle, twinkle, on page 69

1 matches

General Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
I'm no awa tae Suez, I juist slep in kis I wes gey thrang lest on page 65

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
sister that Hughie had first slep in her hoose as a result o hi on page 26
cht," said Sally, as the wean slep on hir shouler. "We might hae on page 35
Ye didnae see a thing, fur ye slep the hale way throu it. Ye mis on page 44
juist feel tired. I must hae slep efter drinkin the port an I g on page 52
ock chimed ten times. She had slep mair than twelve oors. She st on page 54
Also on pages 59
6 matches

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
A cud hae slep tae Monday. on page 40

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
asht ower tha boat. But Jesus slep throu it. His follaers cum an on page 9

1 matches

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