A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'belfast'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
belfastOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.84517
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 62.8 2 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 512.3 10 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 2
GUL - General Ulster 224.9 16 4
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of belfast 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.

Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Cowld runnan water in a Belfast sink. on page 42

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Naewey tae bide, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
ets o Embra, Cardiff, Dublin, Belfast an London wi nae siller, maet
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 108, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
20 Sept. 2002, Mike Watson in Belfast, said that:-
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
, there wis talk o the City o Belfast bein interestit in takin a tu
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
John McIntyre frae Belfast, the Secretar o the UK comate
1 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
a 'fantastical' advert in the Belfast Telegraph for an 'Eeksi-Peeks on page 56

1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
n that Charles Jones includit Belfast Inglish unner the heidin o â€
gues bidin in or commutin tae Belfast A aften hear twa-three items
Ireland in general or in the Belfast area in parteecular. In the s
3 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
he pleisure o veisitin Sam in Belfast lang syne, an interviewin him(2020)
metal band fae Glesga ... or Belfast!(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
wis walking doon a street in Belfast a wheen o years ago. He wis a(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
wis walking doon a street in Belfast a wheen o years ago. He wis a(2020)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
it in Embro an he sayed it in Belfast. We aa thocht he wad fair pit on page 5

1 matches

Purves, David Lallans 75 - Gie Us Back Oor Place Names, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
treet signs hae kythed in the Belfast, Castlereagh an Ard Cooncil a
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
Of coorse he was the Belfast Boy but he was appreciation a on page 32
est I could, that I came from Belfast (not strictly true but I was on page 33

2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Belfast, Efter Good Friday on page 26
Aa throuither, Belfast's faithers in oblique on page 28
in tha Belfast dailygaun on page 47
III. MacCassey in Belfast on page 51

6 matches

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
north Down growed wi folk fae Belfast. New cooncil estates filled w
es filled wi "blaw-ins" laein Belfast acause o The Troubles or indu
lk wha wanted tae commute tae Belfast. Thegither these things gied
ct, an it's doon yet). In the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement o 199
4 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Untitled, (twitter 2021) Ulster - Larne, poetry
avenae been in the company of Belfast folk requiring a translation.
1 matches

@Angelinekking tweeted
never heard anyone use it in Belfast. That was before the penny dr(2020)

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
Londonderry (Co.) Tyrone Belfast Londonderry (city) on page 35

2 matches

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
nagh, frae Antrim, an a wheen Belfast boarn. on page 29
agh, frae Antrim, and a wheen Belfast boarn on page 30
Nor Belfast, nor Antrim, nor the Mountain on page 31
nagh, frae Antrim, an a wheen Belfast boarn. on page 32
nagh, frae Antrim, an a wheen Belfast boarn. on page 33

5 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
nsh doon the pub toul me that Belfast were haein a second Twelfth D (2018) twitter link
ly - hoo mony points dae tha Belfast hallions gie a cratur for clo (2019) twitter link
The Belfast yins hae a quare notion for S (2014) twitter link
but folk fae Ulster, no just Belfast, caain a cone a poke is no be (2014) twitter link
t weans an crabbit eejits fae Belfast, Paddy. The #UlsterScots are (2015) twitter link
and 3 other occurrences.

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
s items. The seller is loving Belfast and “disnae want tae gae ham(2019)

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