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The word 'dum'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dumOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1136
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 10.2 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 109 6 1

Occurrences of dum in Corpus

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General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
es filk, for een o thaim hed "DUM" broderit on his collar, an t on page 48

2 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
me behuvit whilom, or than be dum,
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
eirrour effek at he wes strak dum.
1 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
v got Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum here aboot laying intae each
g fur Tweddle Dee and Tweedle Dum’s maw tae come n pick them
2 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
threaps that Carver’s Mass Dum sacrum mysterium micht be the
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
spirit, sae tha man that wus dum cud noo spake. Tha crood o fo on page 9
ut A toul ye, ye'll be struck dum an no be fït tae taak tae th on page 69
Yinst, Jesus wus castin oot a dum spïrit frae a man. Whan tha on page 89

6 matches

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