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The word 'ablaw'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ablawOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.583
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 3
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ablaw in Corpus

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Orkney

Hershaw, William Seivin Verses for GMB, (Scottish Poetry Library 2015) Orkney, poetry
ablaw the cosmic glower.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
pulation micht be haudit doun ablaw 20%.
1 matches

West Central

Pennie, Len Toast Tae The Daft Days, (Lidl 2020) Central, poetry
mprised of mair than whits in ablaw a tree
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
d come tae a gairden that wis ablaw wi roses. on page 64
lift at nicht. Ilka starn is ablaw wi flooers.' on page 86

2 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
There's so much blood ablaw the bridge it's swept the hin on page 48

1 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
aurrit, heelster gowdie, doun ablaw the swaws o thon gowden sea, on page 17
er echty, ninety years derned ablaw groun, like ugsome taeds sitt on page 18

2 matches

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