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The word 'darling'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
darlingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus36.211612
ORK - Orkney 1023.5 103 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 darling in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
The visietor, Darling, leuks fer a piece tae bide on page 8
Darling's waatchan the fock on the pi on page 9
Astrid an Darling settle in on page 10
Darling notts a plan on her slaet on page 11
The pieces Darling's been on page 19
Also on pages 22, 34, 35, 47, 48, 49, 53, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 73, 81, 83, 84, 90, 92, 93, 103, 107, 108, 111, 112, 118, 119, 121, 123, 124, 125, 127, 128, 129, 131, 136, 137, 138, 146, 147, 148, 154, 156, 161, 162
90 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
Darling an Astrid tak a waak thro the
Darling trys tae listen, but
an firm taks Darling’s bumbazed haand.
Darling’s reply is “Boring! You d
Darling describes the muckle domms
13 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
'Time ta move forwards, darling,' I said ta my dochter, as I on page 59

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Darling! Delighted you could come," s on page 29

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Here's the problem wi the trad wife muivement, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
n coorses fae the likes o the Darling Academy tae keep them richt.
1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Winifred: Brucie, darling. D'ye fancy me? on page 40

2 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ed as part owner o the Silver Darling? Will eat maist o'the profits(2018)

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
micking) Aye, Hamish is deid, darling, but it's aaricht, he went ta on page 60

1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
e soothin wurds: ‘Yer fine, darling. Awa back tae yer bed.’ Usu
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
e moyes - defo an up n comin darling oh the tory pairty - thats f (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ellt bi corporate shills like Darling a Brown that votin NO wis the on page 28
el: Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, wha clearly at this stage o on page 44

2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
if she says anyhin aboot her darling Huey. on page 20

1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
hwell: Aa this I ken - dear, darling - on page 35

1 matches

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