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Use in varieties of Scots

halflins Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.9 7.6 16.5 0 5.8 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences2915 11 0 1 1 1
Number of authors8 3 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of halflins in Corpus

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Central

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
I mysel am but halflins the same chiel on page 24

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ngers. Or they wad screive or halflins screive their ain versions. B on page 69

2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
There wis a hantle halflins amang the Wanderers, as they
it they had tae pass a hantle halflins as they gaed oot. That wee mo
“There halflins there,” he sayed, wi’oot
iakin, an hauf a dizzen ither halflins, wha wad act as streitcher be
hinese up tae onywey, bringin halflins tae a minin camp? Thir fowk w
12 matches

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Tales Fae The Doric Side - Pictur o Misery, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
skweel-kids, halflins, young on page 68

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
puckles o the nearhaun cottar halflins hid lichtit a Halloween bleez
nies, at the initiation o the halflins inno the Britherhood o Horsem
ndfolds roon the een o seeven halflins.
lkie loon in turn, garrin the halflins come up tae the altar an knee
stoppin at ilkie line sae the halflins micht chant it efter him:
7 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
hames bi drug-fuelled gangs o halflins. She wis a stinch wee body, w
rfews war enforced on gangs o halflins bi electronic taggin. Efter t
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
fur men, an fite trainers fur halflins. She wis rale teen wi the sou
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
e ting o cat," Alice guid on, halflins tae hersel, as shö guid swee on page 22

1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
halflins atweesh Meadshaw hoose an Cra
1 matches

Ulster

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
Blinness or halflins tint sicht
1 matches

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