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The word 'nessie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nessieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7127
ORK - Orkney
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 23 5 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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)
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 nessie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Thain, Gianna Far Shaddas Lurk, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
atures o’ the sea, Selkies, Nessie, Kelpies,
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
is nae sic things as dragons, Nessie aye, bit nae dragons! Happy S(2015)
aders, ah’m aff tae spik tae Nessie! https://t.co/6MMcsiuHcN(2019)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
statche. The sister wis ca'd Nessie an she wis a bonnie wee quini on page 35

1 matches

West Central

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
in that wis clearly shared by Nessie, the family dug. She hud been
ted antlers and oval windaes. Nessie would mak good company an aw,
teacher hud telt her tae. Wi Nessie dozin at her feet and a thick
as feart lookin when she saw Nessie howlin in the gairden. If Nes
howlin in the gairden. If Nessie hud been ootside then whit wi
5 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
even Nessie's got ir ane tale, on page 120

1 matches

General Central

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
ermudian friends asking me if Nessie was real! Donna said I didn't (2022) twitter link

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
An swum aff tae see Nessie, his cousin.
1 matches

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