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Use in varieties of Scots

blinks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 4.6 1.5 9.9 17.4 10.3 0
Number of occurrences159 1 1 3 1 0
Number of authors14 8 1 1 3 1

Occurrences of blinks 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.

Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
nocht mair nor the simmer blinks an flea-heuchs, on page 21

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
He blinks lit a madman. Lit a blinkin m on page 1

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
wi blinks o ither actors' lauchter, tea on page 16

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Whaur blinks nae sun alang the frozen heuc on page 76

1 matches

Chalmers, Aimee Lallans 58 - twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Three blinks o an ee. The elements dissolv on page 95

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
d a weel tentit ane ‘Cheery blinks the ingle-gleede’. John Pin
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2022) Central
vvery noo an again as weel as blinks o sun.

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
k during the day, three quick blinks looking up to the clouds so t
ecause the light in the field blinks back. I listen and hear he’
2 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
er oota yer wallet, the Queen blinks; ye're as ticht-fisted, ye wi on page 81

1 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
ts of it, hairst mön, hairst blinks etc. On the mainland it's an (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
filled da hoose. Der dan cam blinks o fire dat lichtit on iviry-e on page 17

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
nae hairst-blinks, but cloven tongues; on page 26

1 matches

Mainland, Jim Performance (After Les Murray), (Shetland For Wirds 2001) Shetland, poetry
I wis blashy blinks an blibes blue-litt
1 matches

Southern

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Wee blinks o licht on page 155

1 matches

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