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The word 'swamp'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
swampOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
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 swamp in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
aen home - they're lyan in a swamp. on page 20

1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
at yer service, lately o the Swamp Pride,” replied the strange
ma brither got flung oot the Swamp Pride aboot fower month ago,
2 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
The language. For 'Drain the Swamp', read 'Wastemonster'. For 'L
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
O a swamp o things that dinna like us m on page 131

1 matches

General Central

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
And also Barry Ferguson is a swamp creature. https://t.co/NZNRNq (2018) twitter link

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
nged his airms intil tha deep swamp an hoked in tha coul scummy w
1 matches

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