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The word 'dumped'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dumpedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus82616
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 22.8 9 5
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 27.3 6 2
AYR - Ayrshire
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) 265 3 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dumped in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Aye aye, sulky briks!" Susie dumped her shoppin bugs on the fleer on page 72

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
rian yarked aff his jaiket an dumped it in the kitchie, takkin a q
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
plastic dumped in a quarry in Pitsliga. It c
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
t means that thae fowk wha ar dumped oot on their dowp efter years
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
gpie. Thur'd be nae mair shit dumped oan thaim. She set up three w on page 1

3 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
The last I heard, he'd dumped puir Mag (Though their brek-u on page 16

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
orry ah wis tae hear yuv been dumped." He then pulls a pint and pa on page 73
"Wur mates dumped yae in here." on page 112

2 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
's auncient Bedford larry and dumped in the playgrund with thair t on page 95

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
noo thats oot the way n a got dumped - its tim (2021) twitter link
ickAcademyFC great to c u lot dumped out the scottish btw - fecke (2020) twitter link

West Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
tane table and ma mum and dad dumped oor stuff doon, pokes o crisp
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
t ae skirtin, that somebody's dumped doon the field. A pick it up on page 28

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ché I am, havin bin recently dumped, sit'n singin sad songs in ma on page 3

5 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
te's made o blocks o concrete dumped oan an otherwise beautiful la on page 81

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
tae be a massive erse, so Ah dumped him.(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
An toy be dumped sae quick on page 19
A million jigsaws ale dumped oot, on page 21
Then dumped them ruined in aits wake on page 47

3 matches

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
t the pot with the big spoon, dumped butter in it too??????(2020)