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The word 'dizzens'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dizzensOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.81912
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dizzens in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ewed inside it; an photies - dizzens an dizzens o aul black-an-fit on page 79

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
wad takk doon a buik frae the dizzens that lined the waas, an makk
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
he size o his broo an speired dizzens o questions aboot it. He even
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
in a boatie caad Rosy Lil, wi dizzens o roses peintit roon her side
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
lers were in for the wickeyn, dizzens o them, 'iron coffins', maist on page 32

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
"Happy Birthday Oor Wullie!" Dizzens o kenspeckle media fowk wis e
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
oot in the Empire, there were dizzens mair slavin in coorse an unsa on page 147

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ust tae poor fowk. There were dizzens o replies tae the advert bit on page 86
t peyin nae attention tae the dizzens o fowk lookin on in horror as on page 94

2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Dizzens o ancestral vyces. Bill as he
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
twas an threes, then in their dizzens, folk began tae arrive frae a on page 34
en maid, Grizel had seen this dizzens o times. As the years gaed by on page 65

2 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Dizzens o sirens cruin thigether - on page 17

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
e daud o rock. It luiked like dizzens o Perjinkians were rinnin an on page 18

1 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
this haud for the past alane. Dizzens o livin writers an makars the on page 9

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
hat were in luve wi Atalanta. Dizzens o them wantit tae rin, an diz
o them wantit tae rin, an dizzens endit up as denner for the fo
2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Yin o dizzens on page 51

1 matches

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