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The word 'blond'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
blondOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62111
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 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 41.4 9 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of blond in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
rich, blond, an weel-airmed. on page 21

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
id he wiz affa good lookin wi blond hair and blue een like his mi
e wiz really handsome wi pure blond hair and sky blue een. He smi
2 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
while blond fern fronds stroke on page 44
He smooths his blond, on page 54

2 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
€“ she wis beautiful, wi lang blond hair. They said the wee manni
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
her hair's still dyed bleach blond. In what ah kin only guess ta on page 72
ookin every bit as if she's a blond beehive awey fae winnin a Lil on page 168

2 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
platinum blond except whaur ye could see the on page 21
The Platinum-Blond Man on page 50
inroom, whaur a fozie platnum-blond wumman wis blythely glued tae on page 88

4 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
twenty-odd an he's got spikey blond hair an blue eyes, an he's go on page 22
ura, She's got the same curly blond hair an the same dimples an n on page 67
them an thiv aw got peroxide blond hair an thir fae Aberdeen. Th on page 169

3 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Cantsmell, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2020) Central, prose
avalanche; because he’s got blond hair it makes it hard tae see
e catch nits, cos ma hair’s blond an it’s dead wiry lik paki
2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Bit when the blond git buggered aff,
1 matches

General Central

Curt_Kenobi Mates, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
s that tell eh's no a natural blond peeking above the collar ay h
ethin. Eh may no be a natural blond, but the bleached-oot colour
2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
kled wi freckles an she has a blond bob that hides her periwinkle
1 matches

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