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The word 'ness'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus154824
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 98.8 17 5
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 2
EDN - Edinburgh 25.1 4 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 55.6 4 3
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) 153.7 3 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ness in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
evicted fae somewye aboot da Ness). Bit dey med guid laand o it on page 7
a room wi da view oot ower da ness," shü telt Betty, oppenin da on page 48
usual moarnin waak aroond da ness. He seemed ta be a tourist bo on page 54
it here ipo da aest side a da ness. It turned oot it wis da sam on page 55

6 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
Ness o Clousta on page 29

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
ness o stane. Der iverywye you lui on page 33
Aroond da ness, blue squill drifts tick on page 34
öl o whaals spied affa Binna Ness. on page 62

5 matches

Sinclair, James Makkin Hame, (Shetland For Wirds 2018) Shetland, poetry
we'll be roond da ness in a minute ur twa.'
1 matches

Williamson, Christie Da windirs o technology, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Shetland - Yell, poetry
Twageos an da Nort Ness,
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
loads o folk, incl me fae da Ness, caa dem scabby mans heid. Li(2020)
yun even rarer days whaur Da Ness is actually clear and elsewha(2020)
@Steve__G8IHT It's da Ness Boating Club. Da committee di(2020)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
trips fae Aiberdeen tae Loch Ness, Culloden, Cairngorms Nationa(2018)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ae, knowe, bin, glen, strath, ness, mire, haugh, moss. Why have (2020) twitter link
op, howe, knowe, loch, heuch, ness, moss, mire, bay, naze, shank (2020) twitter link
has names lik JOUK O DROOKIT, NESS O DOOM, BURN O BEATTIE, GARTH (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
t Ablow the black craig o the ness. on page 29

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
e Cloud, Wee Burnie, The Loch Ness Monster's Comin tae Ellon and
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
n the names literally as (Bur-ness). This is wrang an wad mean t
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
o what dis exist; an the wee-ness o't maks for dowie readin: tw on page 116

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
haeological excavation at the Ness o Brodgar in Orkney maks it q on page 99

2 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Loch Ness, up beh Inverness is on page 120

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
an in a whylie sauled up Loch Ness, eftir a hantil aventurs, ti on page 45

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 73 - Wrack, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Coorse sea, cauld ness, cloud shaddaed, on page 77

2 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 70 - The Primped Skull, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
an oan its lowerin ness, fur aye an ivver,
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
g fir we're in the lee o Fife Ness. Nor, norrad, gowks.' on page 14

4 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ellin dairk? For aa that dirk(ness) wis the chyce o Gavin Dougla
1 matches

@ionafyfe tweeted
Your Royal Quine-ness awaits. ?? https://t.co/BF0oV(2019)

@LairnScots tweeted
at The Hippodrome Theatre, Bo'ness: https://t.co/rp1YZfBuzg #Sco (2019) twitter link
t The Hippodrome Cinema in Bo'ness, featurin a screenin o 'Room (2019) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ds vyce roared oot o the mirk-ness o
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
at Seafield, Katrine, Ness an Nith on page 77

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
rf wa, Fae Bridgeness near Bo'ness, Tae aul Kilpatrick near Bear on page 5

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
s, stanes, the complex at the Ness o Brodgar, a place o pilgrima on page 9
o Dunragit an the Ness o Brodgar, on page 12

2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
The Lost Ness Monster
So this Lost Ness Monster
2 matches

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
ess, plaistert tae tha roon’ness o her swollen wame.
1 matches

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