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The word 'awake'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
awakeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12719
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.5 6 6
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 55.3 11 6
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 awake in Corpus

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General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
Wide awake - WT! Must'v been the cheese(2011)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
'1 wes only checkin yeese wur awake.' on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
re this scene: each mornin ah awake fae on page 15

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
Am I awake, asleep, mysel? I'm baith. on page 18

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
him tae the tree he wis wide awake. There wis a bit o defiance a
1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
awa in a dwam, but she wisnae awake either. The whistlin fae the
1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
wis disturbin me. Yit, ah lay awake, questionin as tae how come a
1 matches

West Central

@annieones tweeted
hope the pain disnae keep ye awake tae mich.?? (2022) twitter link

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
this moment he appears maire awake, and it wid seem his curiosit
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
Gandy Crush. Still very much awake.' on page 29

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
s arm. A'm strugglin tae stay awake, feelin dizzy n sick. Yir gon on page 43

2 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
"Mind you've tae keep iz awake noo, dinnae be fawin asleep e on page 3

2 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
It's different noo, awake. Ye'll find that than on page 17
Whan, hauf awake she haes her hauf a snooze. on page 83
Asleep or awake nicht or day on page 120
Play the gemm o kidology awake or in bed on page 155

4 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
tae the brain that keeps you awake till work ends. Apart fae tha
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
When the rest ay us lie awake at night tryin tae solve unso
1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
S dramatist Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing. Ithir productions i
1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
-like dream even though I wis awake. I’m sure that’s what hap
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
That night ah lay awake fur as while imaginin aw the
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
Still wide awake at 2a.m and a need tae be up (2015)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Tae awake and see what horror brings on page 32
A dug awake lets oot a bark on page 38

2 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Gillen, Charles Oot Here Mae Lane, (Words without Borders Magazine 2004) Ulster, prose
o' the dake somethin else is awake, for the
1 matches

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