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The word 'daurkness'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
daurknessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.22013
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 2
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 69.5 5 4
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 daurkness in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
chaak-white, in the daurkness o the street... on page 117

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Stevenson's words. The tale's daurkness haes been weel catched bi Cam
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Whilst ithers in their daurkness aa seem blin, on page 20

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
they peyed for this crottle o daurkness?
is haurd tae tell in the near daurkness foo auld they were - Beatric
2 matches

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Whilst ithers in their daurkness aa seem blin,
1 matches

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 74 - MacCaig’s draucht oan the waa, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
ht bring licht tae a mind’s daurkness,
1 matches

General Central

Philip, Andrew Lallans 70 - Fower Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
o a tune that dwines tae the daurkness awbody kens but nane'll awn o on page 55

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
led Violet Boakregarde in the daurkness. on page 96
In pitmirk daurkness, lood and drear, on page 115
saw her disappearin intae the daurkness. 'Whit's it like doon there, on page 132

3 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
ke this, they cuid keep their daurkness, dirt, an stour. on page 17

1 matches

Robertson, James The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Lassie in the Snaw, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
aw, bricht licht, through the daurkness up tae the stars. And the bai on page 55

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
me while the ither pole is in daurkness for the same. Pairt o the pla
but for the lave o this warld daurkness or licht lasts for langer per
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
isnae daurkness bit dawn on page 9

2 matches

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
smoor her world in daurkness, while her sowl yerns for the on page 20

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
amangst the daurkness o the warld on page 177

1 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
the daurkness dreeps frae brainch tae brain on page 19

1 matches

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