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The word 'dean'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
deanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81611
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 48.4 4 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 dean in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
lice Liddell, da dochter o da Dean o Christ Church, an her twa s on page V

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
a brither's bairn's, "John an Dean," an me aye liken tae mak thi on page 60

1 matches

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs Use of the common good fund for slap-up feed merely follows in grand old tradition, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
If me and Dean get hitched at the spot o’
1 matches

General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
5 im awa for it like. Downer. Dean wiz on aboot gan doon for the(2013)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tin tae feel a bit like James Dean wae ma chist puffed oot and a on page 40

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
066 feck that m8 - torvill n dean daein the bolero is magic - (2021) twitter link
Brett62 @NicolaSturgeon a ken dean plays for bonnyrigg - just g (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
upstairs doonstairs hoose in Dean Park. She hings aboot wi Heat on page 169

2 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ten-year-auld daughter ae the Dean ae Christ Church, an Alice's on page v

1 matches

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
k Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. an Dean Martin, he can dae the lot. S on page 1

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
THE AULD DEAN CRAW on page 42

4 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
ever in the hoose, aye up the Dean wids, the Brigham, Craufy, de(2020)