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The word 'weep'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
weepOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92313
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 21 16 8
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 weep in Corpus

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Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
knees? Triple - ups? Watch an weep! Ah'm faster, stronger, bette
1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
men must wark an' wummen must weep. Ah sometimes winder wha' 'th on page 13
richt enough, the wummen maun weep. We greet whan oor bairns gan on page 15

2 matches

Duncan, Robert Peeweep, (Wigtown 2015) Central - Lumphinnans, poetry
‘Pi-rip, pee-weep,
‘pi-rip, pee-weep,
2 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@dr_cheeky Makes me want tae weep ??(2020)

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
They weep, for Alba's loss.
1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
a Lamont Stewart's Men Should Weep (1947) an Robert McLeish's Th on page 39

1 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
I canna gie them - we maun weep oor lane; on page 91

1 matches

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
Ah weep fer this toon clappit sair ta on page 36

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
I gaup in misery, an weep, an spleuter, on page 23

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
at his bunnet wi their "pees-weep-weep-weep"; an frae the hill on page 17

3 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
e Gorbals Story or Men Should Weep; e'en whit time we ferlie at on page 127

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
s by George Munro, Men Should Weep by Ena Lamont Stewart, Lambs
i its production o Men Should Weep in 1947. It wis the richt pro
e in social mores. Men Should Weep appealed tae feminists, acade
wi pipeclay and in Men Should Weep, Mrs Wilson gets fair upset:
(Men Should Weep)
7 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
‘to greet’ tae mean ‘to weep/cry’.
1 matches

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