A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'nim'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nimOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.892
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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 17.7 7 1
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 nim in Corpus

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Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
dat didna maeter tae him. His nim wid echo across aa da years t
ie mite. A Viking Thane be da nim o Skarvald went tae da Arctic
2 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
the corpse Oo' awbody's guid nim. That's the weiy they gan on, on page 9
e cried? It wis a fancy furst nim, hid twa pairts, ocht bit the on page 22
w. They've caud it some fancy nim, Admiral Fitzroy, whaever he on page 24
e beast itsell that ye cannae nim. Some o' the very fish theirs on page 34

7 matches

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