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The word 'bales'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
balesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.3179
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
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) 197 6 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bales in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
o the tractor. Silage and hay bales are the bounty of summer. A c
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
lin sweet, no lack some a dis bales you get nooadays at's kinda f on page 8

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
s. Owreby, a tractor glunshes bales on page 19

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
up onte a stack o yalla strae bales an play hide-an-sik wi a faim on page 88

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
aas o biggit stooks, rucks an bales glintin in the reed-het glare on page 93

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
lt him tae tak a cairt load o bales o rags tae the train at Mintl
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
sliga. It came aff o yon roon bales o
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
great cases o machine pairts, bales o jute or cotton, or great pa on page 55
ps in the dock, a ship haudin bales o cotton an ither material an on page 58

3 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Hale cairt-fu's o bales bigged heich. on page 14
New bales noo bigged up on page 15
Amang tha bales. on page 16
An tha deil in tha bales on page 18

6 matches

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Proota Field, (Facebook 2021) Ulster, poetry
And a wheen o wee bales threw in for seats tae make t
1 matches

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