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The word 'dams'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
damsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.864
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 dams in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
K’nicht, or wes ti be bot dams ti be shiffelt about in a gem
1 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
beavers spread and built new dams and ponds, the cascade effect
cade effect continued, beaver dams have multiple effects on stre
maun ging aboot biggin their dams by the dizzen. Bringing the w
3 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
shaggin every prosi that the dams rid light district kin offer.
1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
We daudle oor dams the haill year lang, on page 141

1 matches

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