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The word 'dess'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4113
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 58.1 10 2
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dess in Corpus

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Shetland

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
t da sheep oot. Past where da dess will be bigged, laid ready wi
Mam supervises da biggin a da dess, settin da steid just da righ
a rig to teasin an taperin da dess. Mam biggs until da dess gets
. Mam biggs until da dess gets too high for her to reck
watchin an pooin an tuggin da dess inta shape. Dir aye kempin ta
9 matches

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
ss afore we pat dem in till a dess, an we wir bön in for wir de
1 matches

General Central

Anderson, Elizabeth Lallans 59 - OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
r (Alistair) wis brocht up in Dess, in rural Aiberdeenshire, an on page 4

1 matches

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