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The word 'ingle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ingleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.93821
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 31 7 3
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 2
LAL - General Central 18.7 14 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ingle in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
Sittin roon thi ingle bi smokey lum, on page 5

1 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
o ? an he dunted e kyles in e ingle wi e tae o’s beet. I’m aw
1 matches

Aberdeen

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
k while Farquhar gaed the wee ingle a prog wi a lanth o airn bar, on page 99

1 matches

General Northern

Johnston, Mary Lallans 82 - Life Spang, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
oose an e fire's bleezin in e ingle, I've plunted a tree aat gies on page 26

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
Inbye, the ingle's reidie leam, An bairnheid's on page 8
aa forbye the pairt ahint the ingle. Och, fou I wuss I cwid see t on page 14

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
Ma mither wis reeted tae the ingle, fair terrifeed, grippin me t on page 51

3 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Lat the auld witch burn, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
“God tak us, ah kennae whit ingle sae bleezes aboot me.” Auld
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
sittin in his chair at a tuim ingle. "Aweel, Airchie," A tried ta on page 125

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
sittin in his chair at a tuim ingle. "Aweel, Airchie," I tried ta
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
th haunds. There wis a muckle ingle in the dinin-room and she noo on page 37
ither grabbed a poker fae the ingle. The faither took a golf club on page 39
e watter ower the fire in the ingle.' on page 183

3 matches

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
s monie a nicht I sate in the ingle-neuk on page 131

1 matches

Edinburgh

Capener, Jack Eemis Stane 1 - Syne, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
As a smoored ingle's heat remains, on page 10

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
The ess steys warm lang efter ingle wilts, on page 24

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
81. Set doun on ae side o the ingle, wi Isabel Weir by the tither on page 42

1 matches

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
kitchen waarmin himsel on the ingle-stane, whan the coachman cam on page 42

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
an ingle in the benmaist hearth, on page 17

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
es baudrons crooned aside the ingle-stane; on page 22
For pouer wis cleckit in the ingle-licht on page 23

2 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Review Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
an waddins, at wark or by the ingle. Margaret Fay Shaw tells us t on page 62

1 matches

Philip, George Lallans 56 - Scotsoun Thereanent, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
es (SSC 006) and The Farmer's Ingle (SSC 007). on page 46

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
Ingle provides yet anither example,
bb it at ane vthir auld wyfis ingle’. Burns provides several we
lanted unco right, Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely” a smoky a
ane: ‘There, lanely, by the ingle-cheek, I sat and ey’d the s
ntit ane ‘Cheery blinks the ingle-gleede’. John Pinkerton (17
8 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
seen him haudin coort in the ingle wi his cronies . . . he’s g
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
aroon the bleezin ingle warm an bricht, on page 28

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
an gettin baukit in the ingle-neuk on page 11

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
ilygan, tha wumman sut by tha ingle, glowerin at tha greesheugh.
1 matches

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