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The word 'gormless'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gormlessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3109
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
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) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of gormless in Corpus

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Shetland

Irvine, Chloe Untitled Poem, (The Scotsman 2021) Shetland - Whalsay, poetry
Dirs gormless fisses, dunnoo tyeen whut im
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
screen. Big gormless grin stuck oan his mush. An m on page 1

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Ye gormless gosling, whaur's yer sense?
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
a manager that stands like a gormless statue oan the touchline - g (2020) twitter link
hotspots - that way awe this gormless society would have to learn t (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
in like a pack ay cairds. His gormless pal couldnae process whit he
1 matches

General Central

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Nae Tae Be Taein, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
y Chinese ye ken, thay're nae gormless, on page 41

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Glass, Ewen Yarns 3 - Waash, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ballymony, prose
e a prectised fether laid tae gormless graipin,
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
A gormless gansh on page 52

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
daesnae heed thaim ïs laik a gormless man that bigged hïs hoose on on page 8

1 matches

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