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The word 'chield'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chieldOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.4188
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
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 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 53.4 5 1
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 3
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of chield in Corpus

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Orkney

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
A funny chield tae lukk at aal the saam; on page 39
And gae the chield his due, he never comes on page 40

2 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
o twal stars. An she bein wi chield on page 81

2 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
Daes onybody mynd this chield o ere the streen? on page 15

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
s pre-ordained accordin tae a chield cawed Huldrych Zwingli. on page 82

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
ind gettin a phone call fae a chield that wrocht in the Consulate on page 14
nkind" The fact that he wis a chield amang us takin notes, meant t on page 18
ither wis a pit sinker - the chield whase darg it wis tae mak new on page 23

5 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
auchled treisur o a lang deid chield on page 2
Yin chield brade ootside, the ither hid, on page 26

4 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
ruppit weel in the words o ae chield fae Derval that remarkit "it' on page 6

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
o Ulster series. Whit a fine chield he wis. https://t.co/OqSd6DOh(2020)

General Ulster

Alexander, Brian Yarns 3 - Pilgrimage tae Passchendaele, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Dufferin, prose
ret, an wi a wifie wha wis wi chield, he wis at lang an last cawed
1 matches

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