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The word 'hmmm'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hmmmOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
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 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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) 88.3 1 1
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 hmmm in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
Hmmm. There’s something about the(2020)

@Franwella tweeted
Hmmm think I'll gie up on th retwe(2011)
@MichelleMone hmmm a £5 off voucher.....noo tha(2011)
hmmm a nice wee gless o red wid be(2011)

General Central

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
'Hmmm... Interestin...Gey interesti on page 5

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
vnae hud tea fer a few years. Hmmm... ??(2020)
merssoc Wha is "Christopher", hmmm? Huv ye got a secret identity(2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
ut mountain gorillas all day. Hmmm whit sort of plants wid we ne (2022) twitter link

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
ist rise an eebroo and gie a 'hmmm?' thon wie. on page 49

1 matches

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