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The word 'airds'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
airdsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.3218
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
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 3.9 3 2
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) 428.3 12 3
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 142.2 5 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of airds in Corpus

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
as Newton, Blathewick an the Airds, stairtit pittin up twa-leid on page 121

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
ss, arrivin at a spot kent as Airds Moss in the aifternoon. They

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
ernoon on the bare moor cawed Airds Moss near Cumnock.

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Airds an Tullynagardy Glen, whar on page 2
ab. "Wed be better aff wi tha Airds lasses, oniehoo. Theyd no be on page 24
Burgh Cooncil o tha Airds, Newton an Blathewick Frederi on page 25
Burgh Cooncil o tha Airds, Newton an Blathewick Frederi on page 27

5 matches

Cromie, Willie Doon tha Wal Raa, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1739905620) Ulster - Ballywalter, prose
errybuddy A knew in tha lower Airds spauk like that, even tha wea
sburn, Bangor, Castlereagh an Airds. An we wur asked tae gie taak
il o Newton Blaithwick an tha Airds Guid freen Jim,
Newton on tha Airds
Pairk Gregstoon Newton-on-tha-Airds Sammie guid frien,
6 matches

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
, clocked on the oxster o the Airds Peninsula, his hame. Hamilton
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
then twa Wills frae doon tha Airds on page 30

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
imsel, Sir Hugh Montgomery, o Airds died the day in 1636. The cra (2015) twitter link
Greba, for the clachan in the Airds. (2014) twitter link
ortavogie maist likely in the Airds: aul folk maistly. Rural N. A (2015) twitter link
hn21 A wheen o folk aboot the Airds say "quare begunk" as weel. (2015) twitter link

@HurchinHome tweeted
Sunday drive in the Airds, Greeba craws, dullies and dr(2014)