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The word 'eir'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
eirOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.9194
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 39.2 12 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 31.4 5 1
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 eir in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
'Aye'' he say's, "Bita thocht eir wis a wave'? '"'Gee ma strint on page 17

1 matches

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
ir sowel. Some fowk dinna hae eir sorras ti seek.
set fire til em, syne back on eir wee bikes an haivt e bleezin
nae seem fasht. I winnert gin eir midders kennt ey wis showin e
black hats pu’ed doon ower eir broos an ilk een vrappit up i
like thing, steed up, stumpt eir feet an sat doon again. Aa we
10 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
It’s nae like em ti misgae eir malt, yivvery for’t lang or
1 matches

General Northern

Johnston, Mary Lallans 82 - Life Spang, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
mull, aa so's ithers kin ett eir breed an I get naethin bit du on page 26

1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
e Tron Kirk ti sei in the N’eir. On the Hogmanay o 1966, Jim
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
be upliftit. A uptak ma penn eir o grace 17__ an gang baklins on page 3

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
The tyme wes Januar eir 1916 an the plece a ruim in t on page 1

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
aroun thrie hunner an fyftie eir, frae aroun Constantin Saicon on page 47

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
bot thair expairiences o sax eir o saipret leivin hed twyned t on page 4
he gerss ti nae vissiers this eir. The houss wuid be tuim. Titt on page 6

2 matches

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