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Use in varieties of Scots

nichtmare Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.3 4.1 4.5 0 0 31 0
Number of occurrences148 3 0 0 3 0
Number of authors11 8 2 1

Occurrences of nichtmare in Corpus

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Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
were braw but nummers were a nichtmare. Words were his pals but numm on page 40

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
en starin sichtless oot o her nichtmare frae ahint a grey blanket gru on page 65

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
a holy terror. Ma life wis a nichtmare.' on page 192

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
I'm hivvin a pure nichtmare gettin ower the fact that the on page 10

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
As tho released frae some nichtmare, They form a line, on page 33

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
im? A wis pitten throu tae ma nichtmare, the automatic vyce, foondit
1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
art that it will turn intae a nichtmare lang afore they cun cam hame.
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
ught o taen it oan an orf bus nichtmare! xxx(2014) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
The hale thing's bin a bliddy nichtmare - yon Tina's nae the full sh on page 56

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ynd aboot she Armageddon - a nichtmare o soun an fire an rik; an the on page 39

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Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
The obstacle race wis a nichtmare. He got taiglet up amang bean
1 matches

Southern

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
But she telt me she’d hud a nichtmare. The day afore, she’d been
But she peyed fur it: in her nichtmare, deid beasts were streekit oo
in frae the lift, like in her nichtmare years syne here at hame, blui
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