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The word 'airse'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
airseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4137
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 153.7 3 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of airse in Corpus

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General Northern

Gray, Kath Lallans 63 - Aikey Brae Fair – 1962, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
at quine needs a good skelped airse.” An he chases ye roon the
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
p the oars - dae yi need yir airse redd an aa, filthie wee crait on page 14

3 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
napdarlichis frae his shairny airse(2020)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
sae far up his airse they'd hae lantit on page 66

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
n some new breeks forbye? Tha airse is hingin oot o thaim yins ye on page 15
luks like shed ate a fairmer' airse thu a slap in tha hedge!" on page 24
n fur tha cave an faain on ma airse in tha burn! Whut A didnae he on page 29

3 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Elbas an airms an airse buckin an flailin on page 18
He pits his heid richt up his airse, on page 49

2 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
tead o gettin yer heid up yer airse, on page 45
Tak the weight aff yer airse an yer thighs. on page 57

2 matches

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