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The word 'bummers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bummersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.4187
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 42.5 13 2
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 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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)
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 bummers in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
intill e hoose o een o e heid bummers amo e Pharisees tae hae his s on page 105
r wid seen be here, an e heiq bummers o e Temple an e laayers were on page 116
says till e priests an e heid bummers o e Temple att were comin at on page 117
wis licht the elders, e heid bummers o e Temple an e laayers cam t on page 118
nivver a wird o reply. E heid bummers o e Temple an e laavets prigg on page 119
Also on pages 121
10 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
s an thrissles, an muckle fat bummers,
n preened tae the waa, wi the bummers an glegs an butterflees, an t
in the glens aroon. Rubbits, bummers an puddocks aa likit Rory, fo
3 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
kep guid for entertainin heid bummers whan the hospitality suite's on page 26

1 matches

Dundee

McKenzie, Roddy Cataracts, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2018) Central - Dundee, prose
ys noo. Thi bairns being heid bummers in thae bioteckae works. Dinn
1 matches

General Central

Matheson, Ann Lallans 84 - Attrition, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
s; bummlin biddens, blin heid bummers. on page 8

1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ees, the loodest an fouthiest bummers – the media an the parapher
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Deid huddies an the Moray Eel, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
EU heid bummers said European fishin boats sh
1 matches

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