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The word 'dreamin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dreaminOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.13730
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 2
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 3
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 4
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 2
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 7
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.8 3 3
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 131.2 2 1
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 dreamin in Corpus

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
Whan I come ta mysel an whet dreamin on page 48

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Ah thocht Ah wis dreamin es Ah stared it the spectacle on page 32

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
broken an whizzly as anely a dreamin dug can, his touzly coat taig
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
see. Mabel kent she’d been dreamin but oh me it seemed so real t
1 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
'California Dreamin'. on page 9

1 matches

Lawrie, Alistair Northwords Now 45 - The Win, (Northwords Now 2024) Doric - Peterhead, prose
the cellar. I’d faa asleep dreamin o smugglers an pirates. It wi
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Fae dreamin o' pies an crisps an monkey n on page 150

1 matches

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 71 - Snuffy, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Doric, prose
I wis sittin thare, juist day-dreamin like, imaginin aa the pownie
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
There's unco dreamin in this airt, Whaur the birks on page 29

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
k fae Glasgow. Ah found masel dreamin ae the moment when ahid set e on page 98

1 matches

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
find masel thinkin in Scots. Dreamin ah'm readin it. Cursin in it
1 matches

West Central

Mortimer, Cara Bewaur o th tap tap tap, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
thon gless eyes! Am ah still dreamin? Ah’ll wake up, noo. Richtâ
1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
took ower. Ah’m fed up o’ dreamin’. Ah wantit independence an
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
s nuthin’ there Ah’d been dreamin’ a wis still twinty three A
1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
and asleep the both ae them, dreamin peacefully in a wee world ae
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
y tae himself and is probably dreamin ae us oan some golden beach p
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
l Adventirs, till she startit dreamin tae, efter a fashion, an this on page 122

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Thare's a guitar for oor Rab, dreamin o Tallahassee Ridge, on page 135

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
ower intae a richt deep dwam, dreamin that she wis walkin haun-in-h on page 10

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Dreamin he muses, his forebears stuid
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
hoose, Ah wis sleepin soun an dreamin o Odin's yin ee. on page 14

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
While Wee Grumphie wis dreamin his braw dream, and Pooh wis on page 44
phie, wi their backs tae him, dreamin awa. on page 45

3 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Jean: I tell ye, I wisnae dreamin! on page 35

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Jordan's New Jaiket, (Education Scotland 2014) Central, weans
Whit are you dreamin aboot, Jordan? Fitbaw. Jordan
t, Jordan? Fitbaw. Jordan wis dreamin aboot fitbaw.
2 matches

Curt_Kenobi Mates, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
are brown, long. Ah ken eh's dreamin 'cos his eyes are flickerin b
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
Ah really want a cat. Ah keep dreamin aboot thum, an Ah get pangs i(2020)

@pmcm1355 tweeted
@CraigWHoy1 Ye'r still dreamin. ???? (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
dreamin o the mountain on page 181

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
r dreams. Bit we hae tae keep dreamin or ocht we'll aw dee, Ma sist on page 44

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
It is the lit o dreamin an waukenin. on page 76

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
rànts, tae shae too stairtet dreamin efter a fashion, an this wus on page 124

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Or dreamin sa, on page 1
A wantherin, dreamin weetchil's owler hame. on page 43

2 matches

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