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The word 'halflin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
halflinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2148
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
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 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
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 halflin 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

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
hers, like a tarred road. The halflin, Iain wis a glekit vratch, bi
werteen, nae man nae bairn, a halflin fa smokit a cuttit pipe bit d
The halflin liftit the sleepy futterat oo
3 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
n kittled her like he'd bin a halflin. Ma grannie leuch. 'Man Peter on page 51

1 matches

West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
auld days whan ye'd hear the halflin cry: on page 137

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ther men crulgit back, an the halflin leukit desperately aroon like
issel thrawn thegither wi the halflin, acause nae ither body wad ha
2 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Halflin lads sate wi lotus-garlans, on page 10

2 matches

General Central

MacKinnon, Ann Lallans 70 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
and cuirious as the halflin aye are, on page 61

1 matches

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
him again; fer he, the brave halflin, desairved it. on page 43

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
he heid o a fifteen year auld halflin no lang oot the skuil. They'd on page 65

1 matches

Fyall, Aitken Lallans 58 - The Wa-Ganging o the Meinister, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Bit keeks et the smuirich o halflin an kimmer. on page 80

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ang hazel stick, the barefuit halflin lad hauled hard on the reins
1 matches

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