Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dumfries'

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Use in varieties of Scots

dumfries	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	13.9	46	21
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central	35.5	8	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	5	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire	32	3	2
LAL - General Central	11.8	9	5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	292.9	21	9
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 dumfries in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
on radio o oor kyn o music - Dumfries , Musselburgh an Ardrishaig, t
e famed Hole-in-the-Wa pub in Dumfries , run bi Max Houliston, fa's b
2 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
. Thae poets cam frae Glesca, Dumfries an Galowa, Shetland, Buckie,
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Fellow In Reading Scots' fir Dumfries an Gallowa. on page 205

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Tae Dumfries Toon Cooncil on page 92
Ah'm prood tae say ma Dumfries friends on page 93
Dumfries Cooncil will pen ye in! on page 94

6 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
ger oan whit joins a man frae Dumfries wi’ a loon frae Dingwall, a
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Though, “Whit’s Dumfries ’ river?”
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
wance spaik o perty lines in Dumfries on page 34

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
s they went, they mairched of Dumfries an tuik prisoner the military on page 26
t nae kith or kin. The Earl o Dumfries' grieve wad be roupin maist o on page 62

2 matches

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 74 - Thof nae a rigmarie hae I, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
In douce Dumfries oor noble Bard sits fine an d
1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
sponse tae the cry fur views, Dumfries and Galloway Council statit- on page 21
Dumfries and Galloway Council unnersco on page 24
Shetland speaker speak wi the Dumfries speaker? Whit is common there on page 45
local authorities, incluidin Dumfries and Galloway Council, that wi on page 46
on whit staunerts wuid mean. Dumfries and Galloway Council descrive on page 52

5 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ore? (The makar Josie Neill o Dumfries wudna lea a poem unfeenisht w on page 91

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
riginal meanin is a quote fae Dumfries scriever J. L. Waugh in Cute
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
d aw the wey fae Shetland tae Dumfries. It has a rich historical bac (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
a #Scot workshop wi weans in Dumfries this week as pairt o #BookWee (2018) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
k mony a time aff the bus fae Dumfries tae stert wae, ay when there on page 77

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
than a poet's in a Dumfries howff - on page 23
Monument oan the White Sands, Dumfries) on page 28
Naw it's no EastEnders, it's Dumfries, nae weemin, weans nor bender on page 77

8 matches

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
HUGH BRYDEN wis born in Dumfries and warkt as an art teacher i on page 91

3 matches

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
er in the NHS Ah leeve nou in Dumfries. on page 147

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
n life, as a psychologist, in Dumfries and Galloway. He writes maist on page 165

1 matches

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
leyholer', but haes leeved in Dumfries fir the last 35 years, sae no on page 189

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
'Near Dumfries? Oh aye, the Borders.' on page 31

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
here, the bonnie, wunnersome Dumfries painter Christian Fergusson, on page 59
Dumfries comes tae me yince more on page 61

2 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
coast near New Abbey and ken Dumfries just fine. Great local words (2020)
numbers that left the Port of Dumfries (the Carse) over a century. T(2020)
Ayrshire whaur Ah'm fae (near Dumfries in the Stewartry noo). Still (2020)