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The word 'dwaum'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dwaumOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.9198
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 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
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 13.4 10 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 dwaum in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ither cried, brakkin inno her dwaum. 'Yer brither Matty's the you
1 matches

General Northern

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
e she’ll haver, gan intae a dwaum, as the fell-thocht o anither
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
aunners awa like a bodie in a dwaum. His weird nou is ti faw heid on page 140

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
rature, he faws owre, an in a dwaum, jalouses he is on the wey ti
ack ti raelitie, an oot o his dwaum. At the enn o his prose narra
2 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
intil ma thochts een in some dwaum. But mair nor aa thir feelies on page 42

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
We dwaum o naitur, yellae flooers, on page 22
Shaidae o a dwaum, on page 88

2 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
The Dwaum on page 35
The dwaum, the dwaum, the samin dwaum, on page 36

6 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
tin," Violet said, as if in a dwaum. She swung the axe doon and s on page 59
airs snapped Violet oot o her dwaum, and afore lang the hook-haun on page 128

2 matches

South East (Borders)

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
in tae bide wi me wis juist a dwaum. She cam like a dwaum, and sh
. She cam like a dwaum, and she left the same wey. T
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
a re-enactors' dwaum, on page 36

1 matches

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