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The word 'murmured'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
murmuredOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1138
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 4
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 murmured in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Harper, Norman Stronach: A Weekly Look at Life in the Fictional North-East Village, (The Press and Journal 2000) Doric, newspaper
d back on their barstools and murmured agreement.
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
n heart!” He looked doon an murmured, “Thirty-five years o unima
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
“Soonds braw,” Shug murmured.
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
es o the Olympics,' Hortensia murmured. 'She's gettin up speed noo l on page 108

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
"T cannae help it," Alison murmured quately: "I'm growin." on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
He murmured, 'If I want that cash on page 19

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
'Braw!'' murmured Granda Jock. His een were she on page 136

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
en he heard this, and syne he murmured tae himsel: on page 29

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
There's wark tae be dune," he murmured as he led the big horse oot i on page 17

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
"Dae ye mind us?" they murmured, and their wirds birled and b on page 108

1 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
Maw Bontemps murmured, 'Naw.'
1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
‘God be thenkit.’ murmured the merchant as his haun dipp
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