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The word 'bidan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bidanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7123
ORK - Orkney 99.4 10 2
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bidan in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
she'll skin me. Sheu hates me bidan oot. on page 39
Sheu's here and here sheu's bidan - luk, there's no more tae b on page 51
e last that I haard, they wir bidan at Jenny's. on page 79

3 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
o pittan up wirds, o bidan, belongan, an waantid on page 8
rue. No jeust me freends, but bidan somepiece I coud be .. "" "Be on page 66
b extenders an aa the bruck o bidan i'the varse, but sheu wis cur on page 90
r body, here, noo, shoudno be bidan in aald wirds, but hid is. Un on page 91
spaek aboot whither Astrid's bidan haem or no. But thay deu. on page 123

5 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
but bidan somepiece A coud be…”
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
Thir’s an aye-bidan fankle fir fock wirkan in min
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Burns, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
The Licht Aye-Bidan on page 67

2 matches

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