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The word 'blessings'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
blessingsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3106
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 4
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 blessings in Corpus

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Orkney

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
nks geed oot tae Guid for his blessings. The pot wid noo be filled wa
1 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
brings blessings to the garden bed.
1 matches

General Central

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
ent.. .But.. .brow...beld. .. blessings on page 62

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
ma blessings. The fates are wi me, on page 16

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
wee me in Scotland. May manu blessings come your way in 2015 fir awe(2014)
pe you had a fabby day full o blessings, family and freends. Hugggggs(2015)
day coach! May 2015 be full o blessings, fir you and awe yir fam! XXX(2015)
t you and may 2016 bring many blessings yir way!?????? Huggggggssssß(2015)
. May 2019 bring you many new blessings???. xxx??(2018)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@JamesKellyLab @GeorgeFoulkes Blessings on yer frosty pow.(2020)

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