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The word 'dang'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dangOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71910
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 23.2 9 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dang in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
up in siccan a skrit at shö dang ower da jury-box wi da aedge on page 117

1 matches

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
da very coarner a da hoose he dang in ta da twa lasses.
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
tch fe dirl't an stoon't ding dang He cwidna traivel, sit nor bo on page 15

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
loose Like a coorse tink! Ti dang w'it! on page 16

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
thing's riptured hit's a ding-dang o riptures the hale bloody th on page 26
e riptures uninterruptit ding-dang o conteenuous riptures on page 27

5 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
he bew bunnets an saltyre war dang
tilskart nou gaed bak on ding-dang. Than anither smaw
2 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Dang doun by weel-wussin bangstrie
1 matches

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 70 - Carnegie, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Each library ye’d hae dang-doun yersel.
1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Whaur genie lowpit: snipie dang the warld. on page 23
Dang doun the Picts, or mairit the on page 48
d heritage aa ither lands tae dang; on page 63

3 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ng pu'd oot ma auld maw's fan dang ony day soon either.(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Scott, Hamish Lallans 75 - Televeision, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
The World Trade Centre dang wi planes an syne its twin
1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
"An A've hunted roon the hale dang place fur nearhan half an hou on page 10

1 matches

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