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The word 'sweetheart'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sweetheartOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51513
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
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) 98.5 3 1
GUL - General Ulster 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sweetheart in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
lentine Day a'bidy, here's ma sweetheart - but dinnae tell ma wifie! (2016)

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
wolf. Yer grammar's aa wrang, Sweetheart. Ane waswolf an twaa werewolv on page 40

1 matches

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
sterted tae sing, 'Goodnight sweetheart', though he'd hardly the puff on page 19

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
f tae me last night ca’in me sweetheart! Even the polish lads aff the(2018)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Yae promise, dae yae? sweetheart?" he says sarcastically. A co on page 111

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
refers tae weemin as 'doll', 'sweetheart', 'babe' or 'sugar'. They eas
1 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
Bit the wee sweetheart ran in thurd
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
So now sweetheart el hae ti put meh wheels on page 102

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
My sweetheart, Beth's face stained wi' tear
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ce. Fortunately, there’s no sweetheart.” He addressed the auld man
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
'Sweetheart Abbey? Oh aye, that's in the on page 31

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
wi me. I sang 'Let me call me sweetheart' in ma heid." \ on page 32
ae hir lips. "Let me call you Sweetheart.' She sang in a saft timbre a on page 34

3 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Yer sweetheart fur thair pleasure? on page 27

1 matches

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