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The word 'dense'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
denseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6129
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 3
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 2
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 dense in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gallows Ha - Dance tae the End, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
the dance intae blackness so dense, on page 27

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ggey home-made cheesekeck fae dense on page 14

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
the dance intae blackness so dense on page 152

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
e grund is heavy, acidic, and dense wae clay. It’s weet and cow
1 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
dense volcanic rock. on page 1

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
its priceless n you get some dense looks lol (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
door thit we rappt on bi this dense smilin’ smelly granny-wifey
1 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
nna light up till the mirk is dense.
1 matches

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 76 - The Sycamore at Calton, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
Etcht in its dense dendrochronology.
1 matches

Lehane, Matt Cubismo Part III, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
sweeping dense
1 matches

General Central

Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
eivit as they are, whiles, in dense an deeficult language (leastw on page 133

1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ployment o a full-bluidit and dense leiterarie Scots, as you’ll
1 matches

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