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The word 'streetch'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
streetchOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.83220
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 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.6 11 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 265 3 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of streetch in Corpus

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Shetland

Williamson, Christie Gairden, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2012) Shetland, poetry
An dere, du’ll streetch da leemeets
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
cam sair an faist, a stingin streetch o reed-het agony rippin the s on page 67

1 matches

Harper, Edith The Wye Athin Chynges, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2020) Doric, poetry
a traivelled athort the braid streetch o the ocean.
1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
t bi the film mackers. Let me streetch mah laigs furst, syne clean m on page 40

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
The compensation he got widna streetch ti a beuk o postage stumps.' on page 8

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
d, showin her the stane. Wi a streetch ae the imagination, it just a on page 1

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ad tae staund on her taes and streetch up as high as she could wi a on page 24
or. That wis ma second aw-day streetch. It wis pure torture. Ah wis on page 103
he Trunchbull gollered. 'They streetch in a byous way, like these wa on page 147

3 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
a life-streetch, swawin, serpentine. on page 16

1 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
the local beach, a big empty streetch of near-white sand. Wild all
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
the Kalahari Desert, a muckle streetch o dry gress and jaggy thorn t on page 3

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
s an streetcht. It wis a sair streetch bit walcome. A streetch tae s on page 25

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
gey booncie and elastic. They streetch like daft. Sae I ken whit we' on page 154

3 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
le) 1.2... In definin the ful streetch o linguisticrichts, it [the D on page 20

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
streetch tae the bit where they kent M on page 73

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
y it wis ettlin tae bi a guid streetch. Fit for fit, Trev scliddert on page 84

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
faaen til the fluir, his feet streetch and he raises himsel up on ti on page 72

1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
mither used tae string a big streetch o elastic through the sleeves(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
in saicunt hames tae streetch their een an legs, on page 33
the basket, streetch an bend on page 77

2 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
ayewis at yon same lang streetch o shore perfectit on page 11

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Streetch heech their coasted oagliness on page 38

1 matches

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
e wuz whut he wuz.) The furst streetch o the lade, on its sure wie b
th lang awa, an anither quait streetch brocht the lade unther the Be
2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
an lenth, John stuid bak tae streetch his sair airms. On a suddent,
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Alang some ither streetch o lan. on page 3

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
i that, he saed tae tha man, "Streetch oot yer han." Sae he streetch on page 9
"Streetch oot yer han !"; on page 79

2 matches

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