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The word 'demon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
demonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.32114
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 54.5 3 1

Occurrences of demon in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
aun te gie ye a han - Ah'm a demon wi the pint brush," said Dot on page 87

1 matches

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
Thi demon drink wis sair forsook, on page 5
A demon cam tae join wi Nick, on page 17

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
meenit ower sune, fur the twa demon sisters cam by an dowpit doon
wis reid as bluid. The secunt demon's face wis green as goor, her
"Weel, the demon sisters sclim doon, rin ower
r the meen wis heich, the twa demon titties, the yalla an the gre
4 matches

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
it affa little is said on the demon drink on page 29

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
tack transfers on't ca'ain it Demon King, she said, shakkin her h on page 74

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
breathin demon. Insteed, ah wis faced wae a on page 89

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
" The Boss said. "She let the demon drink get tae her. If she'd c on page 85

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Fae thi demon drink an its powers on page 78

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 83 - Phantasmagoria, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Lik a demon limmer that sclims on page 71

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“Pit me doon, thoo faceless demon!” she cried.
“Juist cos Ah’m faceless demon, Ah’ve got nae feelins?”
2 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
acause o his weakness wi the demon drink. But they were still pa on page 13

1 matches

General Central

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
He wis a demon at the physics - gases, wave on page 10

1 matches

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
ley would have dispelled thon demon with a disapproving wag of hi(2019)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
, thair wus a man that haed a demon, an ïll spïrit, ïn hïm. A on page 76
spïrit frae a man. Whan tha demon haed left hïm an tha man sta on page 89

3 matches

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