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The word 'midges'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
midgesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.1279
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
DOR - General Northern 48.8 11 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 83.7 6 2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 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 midges in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Midges affa coorse are haein a say.
Sultry, midges bitin, against the grain.
Dull an grey, midges on the spree,
Sultry at nicht, midges on a spree.
Aye an be midges we are set upon.
6 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Ae thing sure midges on o a spree.
This day tae the midges it dis appeal.
Midges galore, inside tae get relief
Midges an flees pits me intae retrea
Flees an midges jist gang fer feel,
5 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
nely soond the bizz o hungert midges. Focht ower? This, this orral
up residence there, even the midges wad be findin it an awfy tigh
2 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
id gilravagin on the mochs an midges at wes attrakkit bi the lemes on page 8

1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
s felt lik thay were quick wi midges or somethin, an he cuidnae be
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
gien him a tail tae keep the midges aff, but that he'd suiner hae on page 6

3 matches

Perrie, Walter Lallans 73 - The Tod an the Stoat, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
like Hielant midges or blue flees on page 54

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 73 - Ten Owersettins frae the Chinese, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
eydent, keppin howderin midges, on page 37

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
no mozzies but midges. on page 16
The mist, the midges, cockade and claymore, Gordon on page 77

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
The Midges' Complaint (eftir Rumi) on page 171

4 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

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