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The word 'irth'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
irthOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.9386
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 21.7 4 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 98.5 3 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 508.7 28 1

Occurrences of irth 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.

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
it tae the flair. “Whit oan irth’s the maitter....?”
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
, never wance thinkin how oan irth she wis meant tae git back oo on page 8
gittin tae the centre ae the irth, near enough. Lit me hink: th on page 9
day an night! See, right, the irth takes twenty-fower oors tae t on page 59

4 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Tae onybody on this irth, on page 90

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
tae hear it at the enns o the irth on page 10

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Aa fowk on irth wull o tha Loard Hae mine, fr on page 66
Tha irth untae tha Loard belangs, An a on page 69

3 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
le, fer the' wull inherit tha irth. on page 4
Yous ir tha saut o tha irth. But ïf tha saut loasses ït on page 5
t ïs God's throne; or bi tha irth, fer ït ïs hïs fit-creepie on page 6
d up fer yersels treysures on irth, whar moths an roost desthroy on page 7
pooer tae forgie sins here on irth..." - he then saed tae tha p on page 9
Also on pages 72, 78, 86, 88, 93, 98, 100, 106
28 matches

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