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The word 'dismissed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dismissedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.61816
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 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 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dismissed in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gallows Ha - Dance tae the End, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
hat ah'm done will be queekly dismissed. on page 27

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Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
that ahm done will be queekly dismissed on page 153

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Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
umn - "haust/høst". I kinda dismissed id bekiss "herst" an "harvest

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
, aathing at you write can be dismissed as ‘jargon.’
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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
His faither's dreams hid bin dismissed as some daft notion, an he cu on page 95

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Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e outside work, then." Dottie dismissed the wirkmaan an sut doon it t on page 25

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General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
ink. But his accoont, thereby dismissed by lawyers as the talk o the on page 118

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(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
it's no ane to be ignored or dismissed. The eloquence devotit to spe on page 95

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Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
ike, wioot bein challenged or dismissed bi fowk aroond me. Scots are
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Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
waken her parents. Maybe they dismissed it as being Tuggs, the faimil
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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Bit she dismissed him. “Ah’m forfochen,”
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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
essed that ma patter’s been dismissed so abruptly. ‘Whit’s that
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General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ory wi thair sister Jean. She dismissed thon hant, an monie anither n on page 15

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Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
t his haun up but Mr. MacNeil dismissed him wi a raised up luif gestu on page 43

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@DABArbuckle tweeted
s effectively 'constructively dismissed' due to anxiety disorder/depr(2020)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
quite Nordic-like. At first a dismissed that, a started ma genealogy (2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
Sally dismissed the wirds wi a shake o the he on page 20

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General Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
Tunge'. Hugh Porter 'The Muse Dismissed'(2015)