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The word 'dennis'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dennisOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61210
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dennis in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
k 1968/69 on Fair Isle by Roy Dennis, then FIBO Warden, 4 chicks f(2020)

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
hetlandbirdclub and President Dennis Coutts for his cameo. Buy da (2016)

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Michael an Dennis on page 15

2 matches

General Northern

Robertson, W. F. Tales Fae The Doric Side - Fit Een's Ken?, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Delivert next wis Dennis, on page 47

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
31 MSP's (SNP, Green, SSP an Dennis Canavan) votit for it. Noo, w
1 matches

General Central

Lang, Charles nobody remembers the birdman - Good Friday, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, poetry
lty fur the part he played in Dennis's death. on page 88

1 matches

Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
as Jim Sillars, Jimmy Reid an Dennis Canavan hae also cam tae see
1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
apparently. Him and big Shaun Dennis were a couplay mentalcases, n
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
environment: our servin-chiel Dennis Oziri tellt us bedtime tales
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
sTORM DENNIS on page 35

2 matches

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