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The word 'blamed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
blamedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1109
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 blamed in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
n wis brokken-herted and sheu blamed me, I could tell. on page 55

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
destroyed wir family. Faider blamed Mam fur makkin Alec intae a s on page 20
did danadays. Wir faider aye blamed Bertie, as if I hedd naethin on page 72

2 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
...but then again he canny be blamed for their party faithful bein (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
is ooto kilter tae. Some fowk blamed the skweels, ithers the wint
1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
Cyaard wis blamed for the mis-behaviour o these on page 118

1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
ay, maybe her man's no tae be blamed fur spendin' aw his time in t on page 26

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
invaders an’ A cannae say A blamed them! When at last Lord Murra
1 matches

General Central

@ThonJacobite tweeted
n yer growth, ma mither never blamed the fags for ma lack o' heigh (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
't rock. Ye can bet she'll be blamed if the faimilie should faw An on page 40

1 matches

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