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Use in varieties of Scots

nightmares Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences64 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of nightmares in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ay a hoaspital. The stuff ay nightmares, the place; encrusted as it i
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
y shredded by bullets. Ah had nightmares aboot it fur weeks, but ah’
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
for my balls. I'll be having nightmares for a week. Jeez!”
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MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
let it drift me awa' fae th' nightmares o' life. Nothing wis thare.
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Doric

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
; she'd say. Fills ma heid wi nightmares aboot black lungs and mannies on page 43

1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Bedevilled bi nightmares, he swaeted and threshed. Aal on page 16

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