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Use in varieties of Scots

bla Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.2 1.6 4.8 0 17.4 65.6 4.4
Number of occurrences163 3 0 3 6 1
Number of authors7 1 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of bla in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
Bla, bla, bla. But then aw ae a sudden the
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
s hersel, the cauld win cudna bla on him. Wi Minnie, she gaed t
1 matches

TheChielMeister Ah'm e chiel (sae dinna fash), (youtube.com 2011) Doric, poetry
Ah feelt ma heid wis gaun tae bla' up sic wis e wye shae spak t
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
a place cad Fittie on one icy bla'ing a hooly day, lived an aul(2018) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
aɪ /graɪs/ (grice), /blaɪd/ (blyde), /waɪ/ (wye), /g on page 24
l alveolar lateral /blaɪd/ (blyde) on page 26
nventions, fir example blyde /blaɪd_/, wrocht on page 36

3 matches

Southern

@cammyrudkin tweeted
f wus shite, the ref wus crap bla bla bla becca says cum on the(2020) search twitter
f wus shite, the ref wus crap bla bla bla becca says cum on the(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
ir best frien's tae a half o' Bla'k Bush, on page 29

1 matches

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