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The word 'dumfriesshire'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dumfriesshireOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.275
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 69.5 5 3
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 dumfriesshire in Corpus

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(South) East Central

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
e Galloway tae the Grampians, Dumfriesshire tae Shetland an maist places
1 matches

General Central

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
Born in Moniave in Dumfriesshire, a weaver’s son, he wis cle

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
let's win her Dumfriesshire, nae swearin, jist Fechan! on page 77

2 matches

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
e born an bred, nou leeves in Dumfriesshire wi her faimily. Poems hae app
1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
Anderson and even more aboot Dumfriesshire Railwayman Poet Alexander And(2020)
e aw the time in Ayrshire and Dumfriesshire!(2020)

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