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The word 'sheerlin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sheerlinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.932
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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 sheerlin in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
Du's surely ootdön, sheerlin dy spos o rees i dese doontö on page 66

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
taks me a age, for der a bird sheerlin on page 25

1 matches

De Luca, Christine St Ninian's Isle, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, poetry
sheerlin blissins on göd an ill alick
1 matches

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