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The word 'grimleens'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
grimleensOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.486
ORK - Orkney 69.6 7 5
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 grimleens in Corpus

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Orkney

Tait, Ruth Gallows Ha - Watchan Eyes, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Wan night in the grimleens on page 10

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I walked home in the grimleens - bitter tears rolled doon m on page 4

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
o stooks in the grimleens; on page 9

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
anunder grimleens' on page 6

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
m a clap and lukks oot as the grimleens turn tae darkness on page 117

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
t must hiv been a trick o the grimleens. Mr Dursley blinked, an gecke
e birds flyan ivvrywhar since grimleens this morneen. Experts canna e
2 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
hid'll dee,' she said, in the grimleens. on page 21

1 matches

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