A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'birsslin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
birsslinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.241
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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)

Occurrences of birsslin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
s forepaas. As she sat in the birsslin heat, the hale o the pairish
s sowel wad be saved frae the birsslin lowes o Hell. It wad bide oot
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
breenge fur meat up onno the birsslin shore an syne back tae the sa
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
er an a hotter an a fizz like birsslin bacon as his flames gaed oot.
1 matches

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