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The word 'demented'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dementedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.177
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of demented in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. New Lambs, Owld Stone, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
Meeeh! till yur cheust aboot demented wae it.
1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Billie: The daft, demented doactur wha created me didnae on page 40

1 matches

Gray, Kath Lallans 63 - Aikey Brae Fair – 1962, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ol but she’s been drivin us demented wi askin about Aikey Fair an
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
e. Weel, she ran at me like a demented loon an kicked ma shin again.
1 matches

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin 378, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
naw…coo coo fuckin coo. Am demented. They won’t swally the disi
1 matches

General Central

Watt, George T. Lallans 74 - Distempered, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
oor gulsoch minds sair demented,
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
It sent him fair demented, on page 34

1 matches

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