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The word 'imagined'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
imaginedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.23422
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 19.5 8 4
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 69.7 5 3
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of imagined in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Could he iwer hae imagined cheust hoo muckle time we sav on page 44

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
so less real, since no imagined. His desk on page 26

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
k, slim an glamorous, ur so I imagined. on page 99

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ery day wi her wisna foo he'd imagined it; he hatit te admit it, eve on page 87

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ve a buckle at the sight as I imagined aitin them and by good fortun
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
person hid niver in her life imagined hersel using that knowledge o
1 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
are thae imagined elephants. on page 10

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
. He opens up jist the wey ah imagined he wid. By tellin us aw aboot on page 52
that sort ae hing. Ah alweys imagined it wid be dearer than that" s on page 107
rin right through the cunt ah imagined how gid a 1001b American pitb on page 117
s than ah coulda possibly huv imagined. on page 190

4 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
Tae pass the time, I imagined the polis marchin intae the b on page 28

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
kenspeckle yarn haes been re-imagined intae the style o Scottish mu
been weel thocht oot on this imagined "parallel universe" whaur Sco
2 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
enough o it. In ma minds ee I imagined masel being a sportin super s
1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
€™ ye up under the elbows, ah imagined they’d sweep ye alang back
1 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
eys socht tae catch in ma ain imagined epitaph: "Here ligs Hugh S. P on page ix

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
is point in ma life ah alweys imagined ah hud less chance ae dyin th
1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
ionnaire smile. Mibbe ah jist imagined that last yin. on page 1

1 matches

General Central

Donaldson, Gordon Lallans 90 - Echty-Echt, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
Ach,' Ah thocht, 'Ah maun hae imagined it'. on page 37

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
Klaus imagined Mr. Poe comin alang in his mo on page 61
uer aw the wey tae the grund, imagined her wee sister's last thochts on page 107
Violet imagined sleepin next tae Coont Olaf, on page 109
wee bit breeze, and when she imagined hersel swingin in thon breeze on page 119

5 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
e inside. I closed ma een, an imagined Theseus tyin the twine tae th
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
In this ferlie imagined portrait, commissioned in 202
1 matches

McNulty, Victoria Hame, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
We imagined a feast fae the foodbank and
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
rin heid bowed, tae what folk imagined wis a cauld lonely bed. on page 79

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
imagined I heard a lintie sing beyond on page 10
tuim packets fae unner imagined trees on page 43

2 matches

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Ah imagined the words caught inside. on page 93

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Breenge, (Scottish Poetry Library 2016) Central, poetry
imagined I heard a lintie sing beyond
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
sel widenin? I'm no sure the "imagined community" I mind as wean has
1 matches

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