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The word 'vampires'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
vampiresOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
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 vampires in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ke her. It caaed them 'Energy Vampires' - said they sookit aa the j on page 77

1 matches

Cormack, Liam Hallaeen, (The Gaudie 2019) Doric - Banff, poetry
But ghosties an vampires get in yer heed
1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
uid comes natural tae im. Can vampires bleed tae death? Mixin the di on page 40

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Nine Fragments - III, (Lowdown-L 2009) Central - Central, prose
Sae I kent for shuir the war vampires aboot the toun,” qo Ísabel
differ atween wishin the war vampires aboot, an kennin the ar.”
a differ the ar atween wishin vampires wis aboot an kennin thay’r
3 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 76 - Tammy an the Cheese Plant, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
Tam o Shanter an aa that, an vampires cannae staun daylicht. Weel,
1 matches

Sands, Finn THE GHAISTLY FITBAW MATCH, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
ert thegither. He spied dodgy vampires an mair ghouls an a trio o’
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
intae bluidthirsty financial vampires or Imperialist arms-dealers, on page 96

1 matches

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