A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bal Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 0 0 0 40.7 0 17.7
Number of occurrences110 0 0 7 0 4
Number of authors7 4 3

Occurrences of bal in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
'll fetch you things whin you bal dem, an he'll sit up ower an on page 23

1 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
ta lay things up, an times ta bal awa; on page 51
canna gie up on you. I canna bal you awa. I canna turn my face on page 69
So dey bal'd da net ower da side an star on page 87
maet dat da weel-aff craetir bal'd oot. Ee day da pör body de on page 125

4 matches

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
a da day. Da first job is to bal oot aa da coles. I lik ta div
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
od miles an nae packaging tae bal awa. An wir puddin? Gingerbre
1 matches

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
"Bal'albana's whar A cum fae" on page 6
In Bal'macruise it sits. on page 23

2 matches

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
leagh's sinn, the King wi'the bal'. on page 2

1 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
Harry’s bal was lyinin his driveway. Ah k
1 matches

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