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The word 'bled'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bledOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.41410
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bled in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
a. It wis bluid. Things anely bled like that fin they war hurtit
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
shot-blastin yer skin till ye bled. It went for yer thrapple lik on page 29

1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
edna wan muckle faarer or the bled o een o the airs gat steekit on page 74

1 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
ry… but this… this wis aa bled throu an bound wi sweat fae h
1 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
wi gusto. “Hit his heid an bled some-
bled her; but Doris cuid interpret
2 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
o humpybackit sumphs wha’v bled warkin folk white fir centeri
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
aa they did, an fir an empire bled, on page 41
u in Pompeii's Portico Caesar bled. on page 142

2 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Whaur peonies erst in crimson bled on page 2
An green grows ilka leaf an bled on page 36

2 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
In case it ever bled on page 44

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Wae blid-wat seggan bled an het esh gun; on page 26

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
n bluid an the babbie she had bled fur ilka nicht. on page 33

1 matches

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