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Use in varieties of Scots

dess Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 0.5 0 0 58.1 0 0
Number of occurrences111 0 0 10 0 0
Number of authors3 1 2

Occurrences of dess in Corpus

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Central

Anderson, Elizabeth Lallans 59 - OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
r (Alistair) wis brocht up in Dess, in rural Aiberdeenshire, an on page 4

1 matches

Shetland

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
t da sheep oot. Past where da dess will be bigged, laid ready wi
Mam supervises da biggin a da dess, settin da steid just da righ
a rig to teasin an taperin da dess. Mam biggs until da dess gets
. Mam biggs until da dess gets too high for her to reck
watchin an pooin an tuggin da dess inta shape. Dir aye kempin ta
9 matches

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
ss afore we pat dem in till a dess, an we wir bön in for wir de
1 matches

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