Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'abin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

abin	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	13.2	43	17
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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	10.9	1	1
DOR - General Northern	31	7	3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	12.7	5	3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.5	2	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	19.9	15	6
SEA - South East (Borders)	25	2	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)	409.8	8	1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster	42.2	3	3
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of abin 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.

Aberdeen

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
r is a gey hertie ack, an wey abin fit a peer auld fuskie toot l on page 98

1 matches

General Northern

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - Oor Grun, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
n doon, fleggit bi the shadaa abin it, on page 88

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 78 - Scots Teegars, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric, prose
s tovin in the thermals heich abin the kenspeckle Acacia trees, on page 80

1 matches

Smith, Derek Northwords Now 43 - Derek Smith, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
I staun oan the brig, a man abin it aw. on page 18

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
weet an clatchie on the muir abin the faws.
it wi the bell-heather growin abin pate-baunks. Wi aw the rain o
heid o the stey hull abin the caur pairk.
teemed fae the pate-baunks abin sae climin doon yon was frich
4 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
rit, palms hoverin twa inches abin the metal. The Boot put his h on page 1

3 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
fy her. Ah hear tell she's no abin takin' the strap tae them, st on page 20

1 matches

Peffers, Bob A Aboot Mid-Camps, Kirnitten, Bi East Cawther, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
whit it soonds like, Sheugh! Abin yone siever wis wan cast irn
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
tched as Red Soldiers take ye abin the clachan and hang a quite
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
Abin the Blackwater,
1 matches

General Central

Shepherd, J. Barrie Lallans 82 - Glenluce Abbey , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
voice abin voice - a double chorus, aa on page 56

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ey wi Archie an haud his heid abin the watter.' on page 21
the burn haudin Archie's heid abin the cauld burn watter, wytin on page 23
rk glessie glides o the burn. Abin the breengin stanes A cuid he on page 24

4 matches

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Twa gifts fae God abin us. on page 16

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
e win up the bing o saund tae abin the scrogs tae a pynt whaur o on page 59
een the baist kythin its heid abin the watter she at yince chyng on page 63

2 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Central, prose
grund. A raxt ma airms forrit abin ma heid an taen haud o twae d on page 22

3 matches

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ae Ayr roon tae Prestwick, an abin aa, Wigtown, whar the wird we on page 59

1 matches

McCallum, Andrew Lallans 73 - Ecce Homo, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Abin e's stoup't shoothers the hil on page 71

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
Steel farm, Nether Skellyhill abin the village o Lesmahagow.

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
d. They wur then wur stuck up abin the Netherbow Gate.

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Tae till the soil abin the Sware on page 8
Abin them a' ye shine on page 19

2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Shooders up abin them clean on page 26
An abin his lugs it's brave an wigly. on page 41
abin tha birdsang; on page 47
Aye, bricht skies abin. on page 57
an bigged heivens abin drumlins." on page 58

7 matches

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
for tae stap yin raisin itsel abin anither. The folk in the oul
1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
blinkin Springtim moarnin sun abin the Mountains o Mourne. on page 48

1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
herryUH your neb's thon thing abin your bake, dinnae mix it up w (2015) twitter link

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
English word "above" can be "abin" / "aboon" / "abeen" ; the wo(2020)