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The word 'blirt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
blirtOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.484
ORK - Orkney
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 131.3 4 1
GUL - General Ulster 56.9 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of blirt in Corpus

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South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
han A tell ee at A begoud tae blirt, an ma hert wis fair lipperin
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Owl blirt! on page 14

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
d dap I scrubbed fur thon oul blirt mornin, nuin an night. I redd on page 4
"Ma da was an oul blirt at times, but he sent fur Est on page 9
Oul Leonard Gourley was a bad blirt an you know it! He died alane on page 17
mairied thon guidfor-naethin blirt, I'llniver know. Iver since I on page 31

4 matches

General Ulster

Mc Donnell, John , (Facebook 2021) Ulster, prose
Ach ye wee blirt ye...luk at tha mess o ye..A
1 matches

Mc Donnell, John Joogins, (no publisher recorded 2020) Ulster, prose
ck wae tha Sally rod...ye wee blirt ye...Mae guid wee clock...it'
1 matches

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