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The word 'erm'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ermOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus23.87913
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 4
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 223.7 2 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 303.7 49 1
GLA - Glasgow 85.4 17 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of erm 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.

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
hand, so I jeust drew back me erm an let id rip at him, is haer on page 21
Drew back his erm an let her rip, on page 39

2 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
BOWIE bored intae his fore-erm on page 12

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
iding place, ducked under his erm and up on the chair aside him on page 129

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
an erm fur support an a carean smile on page 119

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ld, an she sat doon in a beeg erm-chair at wan end o e table. on page 64

1 matches

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
gie ye a scream ah dropped an erm Paracetamol ?? wi an 87 year (2021) twitter link
hame it was a Danny magnet....erm it wisnae really (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
s as the Lady of the Manor... erm... Estate." on page 1

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
that wid cost an erm an a leg. on page 47

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ice sut neist him. She pat an erm roon him. Naiturally he wis s
sut chivalrously allooin his erm tae gang numb, feedin the fir
er braith an cleekit Bill’s erm ... bit the fuitsteps gaed by
ssed her broo. He held her at erm’s linth. “You’re wearin
iddently, he raised his richt erm an copied her earlier pose. S
49 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
gainst the door, an the ither erm curlt roon her heid. Still sh on page 35
"Sure, it's an erm, yer honour!" on page 37
The King pit his haun oan her erm, an said quietly "Noo jist hi on page 80
s boady tucked away unner her erm, mair or less, wae its legs h on page 81
d the flamingo away unner her erm, so's it couldnae escape agai on page 85
Also on pages 87, 89, 90, 109
13 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
companied wi a wee poke in ma erm by an iron finger. on page 3

4 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
"Erm, hullo," said Mr. Poe, soondi on page 63

1 matches

@Cobradile94 tweeted
Erm... are ye gaun'ae tell thaim (2018)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
s ah. Its just ah ern. I dont erm, I dont know but ah by jove i(2020)

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