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The word 'baillie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
baillieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9166
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 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 10.1 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 25 4 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of baillie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
cottared there eenoo. He wis baillie tae Steenhillock. His twa loo
It's first I gaed on fur baillie loon
2 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena The Spikk o the Nor East Leid, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Doric, poetry
Spukken bi fermer, fisher, baillie, orra loun, an traivellin cya
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
George Elphinstone, whaur Baillie Angus Cameron haes turnt up a
kisses as he daes, sayin the Baillie shuid chynge his
form o the Provost, Baillie an Toun Clerk tries tae find
an chitterin Baillie. But it wis Ronnie Miller tha
4 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
the Baillie. An ah refuse, ah taint ma of on page 112

4 matches

General Central

McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
Baillie, tae gan awa and hae a deek. on page 62
"Braw," the Heid Baillie muttered. on page 63

3 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
be uised ... but naw, Jackie Baillie summin up made claer at as fa on page 4

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
Jackie Baillie become a memmer o the Comatee
1 matches

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