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The word 'blinks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
blinksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71514
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 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 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 blinks in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
ts of it, hairst mön, hairst blinks etc. On the mainland it's an (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
filled da hoose. Der dan cam blinks o fire dat lichtit on iviry-e on page 17

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
nae hairst-blinks, but cloven tongues; on page 26

1 matches

Mainland, Jim Performance (After Les Murray), (Shetland For Wirds 2001) Shetland, poetry
I wis blashy blinks an blibes blue-litt
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
er oota yer wallet, the Queen blinks; ye're as ticht-fisted, ye wi on page 81

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
wi blinks o ither actors' lauchter, tea on page 16

1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
He blinks lit a madman. Lit a blinkin m on page 1

1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Whaur blinks nae sun alang the frozen heuc on page 76

1 matches

Chalmers, Aimee Lallans 58 - twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Three blinks o an ee. The elements dissolv on page 95

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
d a weel tentit ane ‘Cheery blinks the ingle-gleede’. John Pin
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2022) Central
vvery noo an again as weel as blinks o sun.

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
k during the day, three quick blinks looking up to the clouds so t
ecause the light in the field blinks back. I listen and hear he’
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
nocht mair nor the simmer blinks an flea-heuchs, on page 21

1 matches

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Wee blinks o licht on page 155

1 matches

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