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The word 'rair'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
rairOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.23014
ORK - Orkney
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 22.8 9 5
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 19.9 15 8
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of rair in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ee, an lat oot the maist awfu rair. He leukit aa roond, but the on page 86
pub, thair wis this aamichty rair! on page 90

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
ummin saft, syne wi a thunner rair on page 59

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
loaf/laif, north/nairth, roar/rair phenomenon that affecks a gey
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
sed on hiz sister giein him a rair i
trewth o the wirds, than wi a rair lik a jagwar an
gie’m a rair. The rauchil buddie sayed noc
3 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
aye jist breengein inbye wi a rair o ‘Ir ye in?’ Mrs. Finlay
1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Sanct Hub’s, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
thair wis a michty rair, a doosht o caller air,
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
ell breks lowse; the speirits rair an yelloch, an wul seeminlie on page 139

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
xpekkit ti cum an gie thaim a rair the verra mornin. Barbar's fa on page 42
f hame, Adomnan gied Barbar a rair whyle he wes dae-in hiz yokin on page 45

2 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
intae a lang, uncannie rair. on page 38

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
hae kind teachers that didna rair at them ower muckle, and even on page 26

1 matches

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
Nixt, Thorstein himsel gied a rair an chairged in, wi Olaf close on page 58

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
muckle factory, cam a muffled rair o energy as though the wheels on page 71
inside o them, and abune the rair o the watterfaw, ye could hea on page 75

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
t o naewhaur. Wi a radge-like rair he wheeched her up in wan cla on page 46

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
the ghaists greet and rair on page 13
yet the chanterin rair on page 15

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
e dwinin street wauks tae the rair on page 14
out an plumpin weet fell in a rair; on page 25
rshaw o streets thrums wi the rair on page 33
mming saft, syne wi a thunner rair on page 44

4 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Andra’s Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
The cannons' rair, the splenterin wuid, on page 50

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 59 - Eleiven Quad Bike Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Anly the rair o the quad bike is herd. on page 114

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
"Awwwwww." A stranglt rair frae ahent pit oomph in thair on page 65

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
rst at the gowstrous wunn’s rair,
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Wi a guider an a rair. on page 18

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
affrontit. Ma da made a quare rair aboot it an went straight tae on page 23

1 matches

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