A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dared'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
daredOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3108
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 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.1 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
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 dared in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
r Dursley wondered whether he dared tae tell her he’d heard the
1 matches

Mid Northern B

Dunnett, Nathan The Auld Asylum, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
the middle of the wids and we dared each ither tae bide the nicht
1 matches

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
red finger, while her parents dared tae wonder if, finally, she h
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
wha dared tae luik like on page 50

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ven in their darkest moments, dared contemplate they’d wan day
1 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
oody swines. They widnae’ve dared years ago cos they’d huv go
1 matches

Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna Jock Tamson Goes tae the Doactir, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2019) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
That he dared na breathe a word eh.
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Tale o Three Dugs, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
he square. The sodger wha had dared tae luve a princess wis led t on page 46

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
s haurly ony air. Nae that ye dared gasp fur the stink wis awfy w

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
An then ah dared tae ask if ah cud aise the to

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