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The word 'banners'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bannersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.61513
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
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) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of banners in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
t the pairty hats, streamers, banners, balloons, an yer birthday ca on page 20

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Loving the Doric banners in the Bloo Toon fur Scottish(2015)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
ithers o warkin folk wi their banners. Then the photies tuik us in on page 73
uckle parades, wi uniforms an banners, an the folk went gyte owre a on page 75

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
irtists creatit sculptures an banners, posters an artwork, muckle o on page 107

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
an resolvit intae an array o banners.
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
e brae an loch; the wine; the banners i'the wind. on page 32

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
gs flagged oot ahint him like banners as he strauchled his wey alan on page 123

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
An though we mairched wi banners bricht on page 71

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Three days in October, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ot in a line tae cairy muckle banners wi them on the ends haein tae
1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor The Rhythms of Bratislava, (wordpress 2022) Central, blog
hes gat naethin tae say aboot banners or mairchin – less there a
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
uncomfortable in front o oor banners, or - even better - hae a b (2019) twitter link

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Their banners in array on page 31
Tha banners billowed gaudy: on page 33

2 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@Mirtn07 Bonnie banners! Mind wha this yin is? (2014) twitter link