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The word 'dammit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dammitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
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 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 dammit in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
@jm_stout Dammit lass am aafo blyde fur thee. (2020)
@shonamain Dammit yin is a piece o nonsense(2020)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
s born tae be perfit, near as dammit. This bairn wis wintit, legal
computer database wis near as dammit perfeck. Tissue-matchin cudna
2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
wi the Neanderthal features. Dammit, they were textbeuk Neanderth
1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
nickers o'er his breeks. Ach, dammit ... jist put yer haund up any on page

1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
9jjs Should have said fud but dammit.(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
they came and went. And well dammit if folk didnae manage a wee b on page 79

1 matches

Tindal, Betty Lallans 67 - Two poems by Betty Tindal, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Dumfries, poetry
as near as dammit. on page 129

1 matches

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