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The word 'twee'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tweeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
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 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 twee in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
anna thole the mock Jacobite, twee nationalism brigade (2022) twitter link

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
the place oot, bungin aa the twee framed prints ontae the coup,
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
e poetry readins wir stale an twee, on page 133

1 matches

General Central

@rattlecans tweeted
ands tae speak, the Top Table Twee Wee Fuckers who arrived by ex (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
woe is me, Ye couldnae mak a twee cup o tea? Tae quench ma thir on page 43

1 matches

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