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The word 'caam'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
caamOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6124
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of caam in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ck that, feel this, kick yin, caam doon. Nivver kens sheu hoo de on page 134
heu canno hear. Sheu's ferfil caam. Anunder ivry laef anither. A on page 160

2 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Afore long his peedie red van caam doon the road. I watched as g on page 129

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
n throo big moshean. Bit en a caam day because o her deep drauch on page 18
t wis a bonnie mornen, Flatta caam, Bit we a fair swall. Oneywui on page 19
Thi sea is coorse, Thi sea is caam on page 35
'Fit's a dee?"" An aifter hee caam/'t doon a beit, he telt ma ei on page 37
is bad rottet eis aw aat. Jib caam't doon an geid baak doon abil on page 55
Also on pages 56, 59, 61
8 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
yin. “Thoo just haes tae be caam an ignore thaim.”
1 matches

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