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The word 'barren'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
barrenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71511
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 39.3 3 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of barren in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Hid niwer left her barren croft or hin a great romance. on page 35

1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
alusit, a pypar pleyed “The Barren
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Left the barren muirs wi bluid red-sodden, on page 42

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Lallans 73 - The Unco Spate, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Dundee, poetry
tae barren neuks an lang cauld cracks on page 11

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
yer baggage. Here i thir puir barren lans, there wis at least a wo
yer baggage. Here i thir puir barren lans, there wis at least a wo
t o the wind in a howe on the barren hillside. He strauchtent up a
3 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e stoat intae the park, their barren, naked branches swayin in the
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
In 1676, efter sax lang an barren years, Jennet an John Broun w on page 28
e dusk, tillin an tendin hard barren upland pasture tae scrape the on page 33
frae the barren uplans o Ayrshire had settled on page 66

3 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
e's a staircase, concrete and barren, the route everybody's suppos on page 14

1 matches

McNeil, Andrew Lallans 58 - Carnegie’s Turning, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
As erect, complete as the barren een inside. on page 122

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
The Bass Rock is a richt barren place in the midst o the Firt

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
'Blissit ir tha weemen that's barren, an tha wames that niver bare on page 109

1 matches

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