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The word 'nervish'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nervishOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.586
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 39.3 3 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 nervish in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
hanging-" "Yass," says Eynar, nervish. "That's why A'm here. Am waa on page 159

1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
in hame aat faist, A was rale nervish bein in the car wi her an was
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Economic Theory, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
the white collar wi a wee bit nervish chitter. A lifted the ceegare
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
; "an dinnae get aa fidgie an nervish, or I'll hae yer heid aff on on page 44

3 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
plip-plop intae the watter. A nervish chitter hottert doon ma rig-b on page 24

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
There wis a wee nervish grue rinnin through Scottish
1 matches

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