A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bairn-rhymes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bairn-rhymesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.244
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bairn-rhymes in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
reference til the uisfuness o bairn-rhymes. Soutar's limitations needit on page 95

1 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
muckle mair nor an outwale o bairn-rhymes o langsyne: it's a leivin pru on page 129

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
n uisage – frae the likes o bairn-rhymes, tradeitional sangs, an o coo
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
English; an our lullabies and bairn-rhymes wis in Scots.
1 matches

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