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The word 'himsell'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
himsellOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8168
ORK - Orkney
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 23.2 9 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal) 605.7 1 1
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 1 1
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 himsell in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
eese ti him. He can just taak himsell roon to them and save me a jo(2019)

Aberdeen

Abel, Charlie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
s and even a toon named efter himsell. on page 25

1 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
n) Nae mair hey for you! (Til himsell) A'l suin cleik thon pickie-f on page 48

1 matches

Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
t at awbodie else kent hoo he himsell hed gotten tae be Director o on page 82
n some joke (tho ane at Jamie himsell nae doot didna quite unnersta on page 85
e anes at wes in the ken, lik himsell. on page 87
rk oot onie mair, Murray felt himsell gettin liftit up bi the oxter on page 88
He hopit he hedna pisht himsell. That wad be waur nor the bel on page 89

8 matches

West Central

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
t down ‘n’ wis hinkin tae himsell, “Whit the hell is a child
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
hei hed biggit fur himsell. The waiter frae the pound wi
at aa,” Yid smilt tae himsell, wi ae leuk o saitisfaction o
2 matches

Donegal (East Donegal)

Millar, Alan Yarns 3 - Sammy Thomson's, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - East Donegal, prose
loved himsell, wuz aye yin tae gae rammlin
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
eid aal throuither," He tells himsell, "Awa hame ye ghaistly ither, on page 59

1 matches

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