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The word 'sweirin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sweirinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.91612
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.2 6 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
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 sweirin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ig, an the air wad be blue wi sweirin. Up an doon, up an doon the l
1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
als; some o't haaf-drucken an sweirin; some o't ill-gruntit an wran on page 30

1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
whitivver sweirin an bannin he med. Richt eneuc
ng syne, fur he wes bannin an sweirin
the tither’s heid an sweirin lik a tink. Tammas boued doun
n doun wi the garron, wes aye sweirin an rispin
4 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
me effeck on some teachers as sweirin in the cless. The bairns is h
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
ae hae a Scots vairsion o the sweirin in aith, MSP's haes the richt
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
up.' This time there wis nae sweirin an the quietness o the wey he on page 51

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ang eneuch tae haud him aff o sweirin sicna aith. Bit he wis black
1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
An swairmin polis fauld the sweirin mob on page 14

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
u langage (includin slang and sweirin), on the tither. The bairns s on page 9

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
her's characters speik wi-oot sweirin. Nane o the characters ir cra on page 91

1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
aathegither, cursin an sweirin at the ither drivers, wadgin
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Daein it yersel, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
But than they wad hear the sweirin an ken it wis juist me lyin a
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
, jokes aboot us bein guid at sweirin or academic theses. Should be(2020)