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The word 'watchen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
watchenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.171
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 1
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
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of watchen in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
". A wid spen maist o ma tyme watchen oot fur thi al Morris A Thoos on page 1
e crowdid roon thi coal fyre, watchen thi aul blaak an fight t.v. T on page 6
weis on cih peer lookcn doon watchen aw eis cairrvon. So fin we fy on page 10
thi heather joy wis alongside watchen eis. Thi feish wis rollen owe on page 19
weis hillayerious tae awbudee watchen an roaren we lauchter eit thi on page 64
Also on pages 68
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