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The word 'darkened'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
darkenedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.486
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
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 darkened in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
The darkened rig on page 10

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
o focks' mooths. The Booth darkened... on page 7
tarin at the pub door in hids darkened nook, on page 30

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
d! Fit's ess?" Elspeth's face darkened as she ignored Sandy's insult on page 32

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
ayonetin’ survivors. Ma een darkened again, an’ aw’ the disill
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
the only hing visible in this darkened oot hallwey is his carrot toa
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
eat, ma eyes dartin aboot the darkened expanse ay the hall lookin fu
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
te as the sky abune loured an darkened, an a great storm o thunner a on page 51

1 matches

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