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The word 'loomed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
loomedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of loomed in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
The Citadel loomed oot of the maelstrom o flakes on page 32

1 matches

Lawrie, Alistair Northwords Now 45 - The Win, (Northwords Now 2024) Doric - Peterhead, prose
hurried up tae the hoose that loomed aheid, darklins. Peem’s. Na
1 matches

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross Mindin, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
racting coronavirus, it still loomed large ower her passing. The m
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
lourin grey shapes o horsemen loomed eerily oot o the mist abune t on page 45
as the shedda ahint the vyce loomed abune her heid. She twistit r on page 68

2 matches

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Proota Field, (Facebook 2021) Ulster, poetry
he day wore on and the evenin loomed it was always a bit o a thril
1 matches

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