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The word 'airth'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
airthOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21410
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.8 3 2
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of airth 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.

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
hi helicopter laanen pad. Thi airth weis awfa gweed fur grouwen s on page 6

1 matches

General Northern

Philip, George Tales Fae The Doric Side - Winter, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
been the derkened unnerfelt o airth. on page 80

1 matches

(South) East Central

Matthews, Andrew Lallans 104 - Skiddlie Thochts, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
thair dulesome weird on this airth aw will be weel in heivin, gi on page 81

1 matches

General Central

Underhill, James William Lallans 82 - Ominous, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
O the airth, on page 23

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
rammelt by, towart the tither airth. on page 74

1 matches

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Sune tae dwine in the airth that has borne him an reared on page 43

1 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
his neck. The reek o the weet airth skailt up his neb. He felt fo on page 17
e melled and crined intil the airth - anither hunner, or aiblins on page 18

3 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
mouth o watter, baird o airth. on page 81

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
and thir's nocht on airth but the dreich watterie snoch on page 18
eathes saft as it straiks the airth. on page 19

2 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
am the fare o the poor o the airth, on page 79

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Lyttle, Helen Yarns 3 - Summer twa thousant an twenty three / A Shedda wi a soul, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Bangor, poetry
As the last butterfly on airth flees past.
1 matches

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