A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dampness'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dampnessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.554
ORK - Orkney
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 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)
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 dampness in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Taewards nicht er's a dampness in the air.
The day wi a dampness in o the air,
2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
g oer the couch an a smell ay dampness that wid knock ye doon. ‘Ye
1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
g seen, walked in the forest. Dampness sparkled, specks of watter dr on page 3

1 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
eal stint. Trying to keep the dampness at bad and more importantly t (2022) twitter link

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