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The word 'pairish'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pairishOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus17.2556
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 62.1 19 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 10.2 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 196.6 15 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 187.2 15 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)
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 pairish in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
birsslin heat, the hale o the pairish o Steenhillock raxxed oot ane
ueen, the biggest ferm in the pairish, spreidin oot her braa skirts
fa hid driftit North tae the pairish o Leddrach frae Angus. The he
n ooto her moo efter hauf the pairish hid caad fur her fur a wikk.
n hae them a 'burden upon the pairish'. Matthew Bruce sat on the pa
19 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
on seein North Gellan in the pairish o Coull, I wad hae bin five y on page 51

1 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
ter nor aw the bawheids i the pairish; ay, an the'r a guid whein o on page 48

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
the pairish wesna beisie brunnin lyme or
1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
Alang wi ma annals o Gawston pairish in the 1950s an 1960s, I’ve
t ye enjoy thir annals fae ma pairish and ayont and that they gar y
2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
les were weel attendit by the pairish folk; an thousans wad defy th on page 27
pairish tae pairish, an mony fand timely shelter on page 28
a deep simmerin anger in the pairish that simmer, for in the month on page 40
an principle, an nane in the pairish spake ill o him. He had lost on page 41
e eligible young chiels o the pairish, whit few o thaim were left - on page 42
Also on pages 48, 51, 57, 62, 66, 67, 70, 81
15 matches

General Central

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
e. Aa the hill fermers in the pairish, an doun Nithsdale, had seen on page 17

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Roberton Pairish, Roxburghshire, Scottis Borde
ger o Deanburnhaugh, Roberton Pairish, TD9 7PN; laist residenter Jo
rature aboot, anenst Roberton Pairish, at fock kan mak reference ta
e centuries o life i Roberton Pairish), bi Kathleen Stewart, (1991)
(B) “The Makkin o ae Pairish” bi Geo. O. Wud (Wood). Haw
15 matches

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