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The word 'nightmare'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nightmareOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11716
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of nightmare in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
te wi, bit da toon wis been a nightmare. Fur a start shü coodna even on page 27

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
dydykes wiz ivvery doctor’s nightmare. Een o yon patients that awak
1 matches

General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
irty plates and cutlery wis a nightmare. But eventually ah fun een. T on page 42

1 matches

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
ool thinkin o a wi oot o this nightmare, ah could run awa wi ma pal w
1 matches

@daleser23 tweeted
iz due off on tuesday. Fuckin nightmare like. Ment to be gan oot tae (2013)
iemcgettrick @giggsy26 fuckin nightmare dude. Dina tell me fit happen(2013)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
??. If it’s wooden, there a nightmare. Expand and contract by the s(2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
find them so it wid be a pure nightmare tryin tae get rid ae them. Ah on page 169

1 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Cantsmell, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2020) Central, prose
see them an it wid be a pure nightmare tryin tae get rid ae them. Ah
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
a walkin fuckin nightmare on page 7

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
n oan the brew? It's a fuckin nightmare. Honestly, yer better aff wor on page 103

1 matches

Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna A Scot’s Lament fur her American Fellows (Oan their election of a tangerine gabshite walloper)., (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2016) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
But naw, the nightmare has come true,
1 matches

General Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
lifeless dark as nightmare till the hauf-stirred on page 107

1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
need pest control out? Fking nightmare going through aw that.(2020)

@jax6754 tweeted
@mrjakehumphrey @Schofe A had nightmare o probs before Christmas wi t(2015)

@rattlecans tweeted
Trade widnae be hauf the nightmare they've made fur themsels if (2022) twitter link

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
nAloudNI Thom chairwoman is a nightmare, spreading word aboot a book (2020)