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The word 'glimmerin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
glimmerinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of glimmerin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
Five thoosan year wis glimmerin there
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
in cleared path atween waas o glimmerin snaa. Tibby sherpened hooves
1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
fir Ye waukent oors on en een glimmerin aince A near dovert ower sens on page 3

1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
t room was oan, the pixel-fog glimmerin’ bright like a hovering gho
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Bolton, Angus Yarns 3 - Ae apologie fur ae fish / Clearin tha scroag on a winter morning, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Balligan, poetry
id dawn ye’ll taak tha bait glimmerin
1 matches

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