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The word 'dairkness'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dairknessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9167
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 164.2 5 2
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 109 6 1

Occurrences of dairkness in Corpus

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General Northern

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - Poacher, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
drapped stane deid intae the dairkness. The yow, the birds an the cu
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
in polisht dairkness, til on page 16

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
e o nummer sax shot intae the dairkness. The pellets blaudit themsels on page 6

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
rauss wis jist a speck in the dairkness, and it seemed tae the bairns on page 162

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
A skelped on intae tha dairkness, on page 23

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
hazy in the unfoldin layers o dairkness. The sweat o childish skin sw on page 9
cht licht efter three oors in dairkness. Maisie adjuisted hir een an on page 44
n peered throu the uninveetin dairkness. Damp air shrouded a ruim tha on page 46

3 matches

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Whut dairkness lyes ahint it aa? on page 55
An in tha dairkness o tha nicht A cannae quait be on page 63

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
baad, yer hale bodie ïs fu o dairkness. If then tha licht wi'ïn ye on page 7
¯s bad, yer hale bodie's fu o dairkness. Noo tha licht ye thïnk ye h on page 90
or youse tae ect; tha pooer o dairkness ïs ower yis noo." on page 108
i thïs time ït wus nuin, an dairkness faad ower tha hale lan tae th on page 110

6 matches

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