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The word 'dems'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
demsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 dems in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
fortunes o the SNP or the Lib Dems, cultural items – furtivver
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ener, Sir David Steel, is Lib-Dems (2), Lab (1), Con (1) an SNP
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
han ye see wha's in it, 2 Lib-Dems, 1 Labour, 1 Conservative an
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
the sleekit support o the Lib Dems, whause chairge taewards irre on page 8
wey o it fer Labour, the Lib-Dems or the Tories. on page 104

2 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
e come, and onieplace the Lib Dems isnae tae the fore as the Uni
roups. Yer Labour and yer Lib Dems is fur coat and nae knickers
2 matches

General Central

Widmann, Thomas The State o Denmark, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
e Venstre Social Liberals Lib Dems
1 matches

Neil, Gabriel The Green Pairty: Holyrood’s nixt opposition?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
tit Labour Pairty (an the Lib-Dems? Wha?). It’s a lang wey aff
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
hiny shite aboot whit the Lib Dems say?(2020)

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