Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dementit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

dementit	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	7.2	23	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	9.8	3	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	11.9	1	1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.1	2	1
WCE - West Central	9.2	2	1
DUN - Dundee	74.3	7	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	10.7	8	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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dementit in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
is sark an duncin like he wis dementit, airms furlin like a winmill. on page 16
an listened till Ah wis near dementit wi the hale SOITY Saga. on page 77

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
dementit if it hid tae weir sheen. It
1 matches

Aberdeen

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
d?" A said, gettin masel fair dementit the mair A leukit roon the pl on page 97

1 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
A'd scribble on, like ane dementit ,
tho in ma view the man's dementit ,
2 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
tit and brattle as if they're dementit. Ah get it cheap, Then on page 16
rsel doon ablow as if she wis dementit. Richt, ah said tae masel. Th on page 101

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
o learnin tae speak like some dementit distant cousin o the Windsor on page 48
mes aroun. This is borderline dementit, but whan ye draw attention t on page 77
ye cin see it in the raither dementit screivins in the sports pages on page 79
lly fae these pairts wis near dementit in bangin on aboot hou this w on page 99
ms, this means playin tae the dementit fantasie o yet bein a 'warld- on page 119
Also on pages 123, 129
7 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
or sails. We oar laddies waur dementit wi pittin claith in an oot an on page 14

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
And some coorse wee dementit cloon on page 30

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
s suddently cairried awa in a dementit chocolate. buyin splore, awbo on page 28
appin up the chocolate like a dementit dug, on page 83
'Dementit!' on page 97
Afore the box drove them dementit?" on page 158

4 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
at had gane intae makkin this dementit stuff - the shavin soap, the on page 39

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
hrough the gap. He let flee a dementit skraik. on page 39

1 matches