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The word 'swarmin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
swarminOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of swarmin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
twa dizzen ither placeys, wis swarmin wi mannies in white biler sui on page 84

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
Wi e crood swarmin roon him he said till them, " on page 100

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
r Hazel phonin, the place wis swarmin wi bobbies. Half a
name it ey were a'a ere swarmin roon the auld car. Hazel asks
2 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ming games wooda hud the fans swarmin in without a doubt - so frus (2021) twitter link

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Than an nou — poverty, makkin dae, an leukin oot for ilk ither, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
cockroaches! Thoosands o them swarmin aw ower the dairy fluir. Wi t
1 matches

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