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Use in varieties of Scots

flailin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.3 3 1.5 0 0 0 15.5
Number of occurrences116 1 0 0 0 4
Number of authors8 4 1 3

Occurrences of flailin in Corpus

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Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
fir graspin an splutterin an flailin fir the attention ay other mi on page 3

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Wi gowsty breath or flailin feet, an I on page 45

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
Wi gowstie braith or flailin feet, an I on page 60

1 matches

Smith, Jamie O pigs and dugs: what for dae we treat them sae different?, (Mak Forrit 2024) Central - Edinburgh, blog
grund chaumers like this ane. Flailin aboot and pechin for breith,
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
it remains ay the small crowd flailin his airms aboot. ‘WHIT YIES
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
They struggle; a whirlwind ay flailin airms an legs as each ay them
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
teerin aboot the cairt an the flailin horse like flees. Some weemin
1 matches

Ulster

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Flailin their brenched sticks on page 27
Frae the flailin legs, wur on page 29

2 matches

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
s an airms an airse buckin an flailin on page 18

1 matches

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
F fur flailin' aboot ait nicht, on page 13

1 matches

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