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The word 'sweerin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sweerinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9139
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 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
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) 65.6 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sweerin in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
red his mate, huddin it up an sweerin. on page 40

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
n their shins on boulders, an sweerin aa the fyle. They couldna see on page 87

1 matches

General Northern

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
n cairryin on. Thumps, jeers, sweerin, crashes. It wis getting oot on page 60

1 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
7z Aht looks sair min. Wiz ye sweerin?(2020)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
kill o writin it. He gets the sweerin juist richt as weel!
1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
ed an the closest she cam tae sweerin wis tae crie onythin piggin.
t that wrocht up he’d stert sweerin. Annie aye sayed anely glaiki
anely ivver heard hes faither sweerin aince in the hoose an that wi
3 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
she sais, dain the no-really-sweerin, sweerin she dis. She’s goa
, sweerin she dis. She’s goat tae be
2 matches

General Central

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
Are ye shair there'll be nae sweerin frae the yowes...?(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Foo o odd sweerin, bairded lake a leopart, on page 51

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Nae air fur sweerin, mutterin on page 18

1 matches

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