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The word 'erms'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ermsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus17.25712
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland
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
DOR - General Northern 31 7 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 124 20 1
GLA - Glasgow 90.4 18 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 327 2 1
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 erms in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ted himsel oan top, tiltered, erms on page 6

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
And he'd pit them in yer erms on page 122
ranny met him at the gate her erms flyan aboot pointan tae the f on page 129

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
incase they're cairrying fire-erms. The twa images jist fused th
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I got erms that lang to hud ye on page 70
Fan I haud ye in ma erms (Oo-oo och aye) on page 159

3 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
atter wi salt in her blud and erms makkit tae slice throu the ra
, a fisher wi his weel-wirked erms, dipped in guts and scales. H
da or ma granny, and appen ma erms for a wairm and weel-needit b
nny’s, swith, an I thraw ma erms roon her.
4 matches

West Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 104 - Stephen, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
oup intae a torso, follaed by erms an legs sclimin oot the wuid. on page 11
t stood thaur aa sympathetic, erms foldit, tellin her tae drink on page 13
rubbin the taps o her folded erms wae her palms, "mak yirsel yi on page 16

3 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
shin her doon. She tuckit her erms intae the brace poseeetion up
Bill pat baith erms roon her. “Permit me, Dr Va
ini,” he sayed, chaffin her erms an back smertly.
he brae, shoutin an wavin his erms in the air tae shaw he wis un
her erms an regairdit her unaccustomt
20 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ars, wae bitty skill Bi bitty erms are plied, on page 5
sittin oan the toap, wae its erms foldit, quietly smoking away on page 42
it eventually it unfoldit its erms, took the hookah oot its moot on page 45
Eventually she stretched her erms aroon it as faur as they wid on page 51
d wee hing, an haudin oot its erms an legs aw aer the place, "ji on page 61
Also on pages 90, 112
7 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
on-grafter. That type ay fore-erms, pocked wi roughly done tatto on page 3

11 matches

General Central

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
ey wir thair a while, wi thir erms acroas the table an thir haun on page 44

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ere scandalised, lips pursed, erms foldit, whispers fleein atwee on page 76

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
ee wummin’s staunin wae her erms foldit, and she says suhin wa
1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Brithers in erms the gether, as al guid Ulster on page 44
Mae erms will ache wi' pain, on page 46

2 matches

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