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The word 'bienly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bienlyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.274
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 bienly in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Ye’d feel bienly eneuch if you stayed at ma bi
poke o messages an bienly thochts o stew an tatties to
2 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
A bienly word for ilka bairn, on page 16
O Sheba gaed sae bienly in her state on page 37

2 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 67 - In Search o Robert Henrysoun, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
I'd heard tell he was maist bienly and wyce on page 123

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
a thousan blads in lenth, but bienly for the reader, the owther ha on page 119

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
an by the loch-sides bienly yerk, on page 68

1 matches

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