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The word 'bind'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bindOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.22016
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
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 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 39.3 3 1
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 bind in Corpus

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Orkney

Miller, Alison Gallows Ha - Bairns Sang, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Bind her hands and cut her hair. on page 14

1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
ta da wirkers dat dey wir ta bind up stooks o coarn fir Ruth an on page 19

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
ta maa hit, bind hit, stook hit on page 25

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
that anely a clean quine cud bind it, a young quine nae man bod
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ets, neither tae haud nur tae bind, though they'd keepit aa thei
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
Scunner me. My schulin disnae bind on page 20

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
them all and in the darkness bind them!
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
a shape, bind or chairacter on page 44

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
haur by this time... Trooper, bind thaim first, lest they gang t on page 45
s an hazel wands tae weave an bind the rafters, an support a new on page 50
Douglas ower at Cumnock! ... Bind his hauns an heize him up on on page 60

3 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
An bind for oorsels a wee bourie o gr on page 12

1 matches

McNeil, Andrew Lallans 58 - Carnegie’s Turning, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Lost ladders that bind to Findhorn, lona; on page 122

1 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
ae he sterts iwa bit bent tae bind the thong o his buit. on page 14

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
These woman's cheans that bind me! on page 21
Wach, tak his haunds, an bind him. on page 35

2 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
wa meters that is same as the bind o a coo is hoo faur ye maun s(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
free tae cut the strings that bind. Or are ye too feart tae dae (2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The chains that bind will never free on page 22

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
really - he's in the sam bind as me, on page 78

1 matches

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