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The word 'elbas'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
elbasOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
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
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of elbas in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
Andra liftit himsel oanty his elbas an squintit at Bella, fa seem on page 84

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
shboord as she steed, up t'er elbas in the het, soapy watter. He on page 90

1 matches

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - The mornin o the waddin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
nae rules rugby, aa beets an elbas, makkin ma want tae spew. on page 98

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
er erms drippin bluid tae the elbas, tae demand watter, het if po
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
the ither twa wir restin thir elbas oan it, an talkin aer its hei on page 66

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
it es a cushion, restin thur elbas on it, an taakin ower its hei on page 67

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Hans an elbas trap't forrit on page 17
Elbas an airms an airse buckin an f on page 18

2 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
hallions were coorse wi their elbas, an thon Erse goal was affsid (2015) twitter link