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The word 'naems'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
naemsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9163
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland 63.9 11 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) 25 2 1
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 naems in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
idden neuks o the staetion an naems o the Lights? on page 36
mind. So Noor swipes ower the naems o enogh paepers in speculativ on page 58
ck, sheu pelters Astrid. Sheu naems the dreids at Astrid thinks i on page 137

3 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
hae da sam or braali seemlar naems. A ert kent example o a plaes on page 8
dir language: da tree plaess naems Yell, Unst an Fetlar is tocht on page 15
Appellation naems ir proper naems at describes whaar sumeen's f on page 47
wi da naems o illnesses: Shø's ill wi da on page 62

11 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
hinking i parteeklar on place naems an the fock at A kent up yond
in A mind richt, the dochters naems wur, Angela an Daphne an the
2 matches

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