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The word 'baird'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bairdOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.83516
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 22.9 2 2
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 18.8 4 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 24 18 5
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) 88.3 1 1
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 baird in Corpus

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Aberdeen

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
t ye didnae ken iz athoot the baird?" answert Farquhar. on page 100

1 matches

Philp, George Lallans 67 - Thochts anent Sangschaw and Penny Wheep, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Doric, poetry
n the dowy bowder o Barrie an Baird, on page 139

1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
n o bainishment an greenin ma baird cam rosin-fite A foryat tae s on page 3

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
ilk happent tae be the Gait's baird. on page 40

2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
uld trace back tae John Logie Baird. A carpet that's goat maire s on page 13

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
wi baldie heid, gray stibblie baird an a glent in his watery blue
1 matches

West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
n auld soor bodach wi a lyart baird, on page 144

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Baird an Hardie, barbarically quart on page 41

1 matches

Edinburgh

Bremner, Stewart Haud Yer Wheesht?, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
st maist o us ken aboot Logie Baird inventin the telly, or Watt's
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
hair, olivy skin, short white baird, specs. Built lik the side ay on page 3

4 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
furrit he wes cryit Throssle-baird. But whan the auld keing saa on page 42

1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
ichtie. 'Ah'll no kin kaim ma baird nor shear ma heid, gin Ah din on page 14

6 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
And Mr Wullie Wonka rived his baird and shouted, "This is awtie! on page 19
is a wee, trig, pointit bleck baird - a goatee. And his een - h on page 67
d Mr Wonka, geeglin ahint his baird. 'I didnae mean it. Forgie me on page 89
heid! And a moustache! And a baird!' on page 102
nd strecht awa a muckle bleck baird sterted shootin oot o his chi on page 103
Also on pages 154
9 matches

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

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
An the baird o his chin wes as white as th
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
I'd love tae hear Alf Baird's view on this @ILawson27 htt (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
d, Ravenscraig Fleming, Logie Baird an Bell Claverhouse, Thatcher on page 77

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
scoolyin een, an faitly clipt baird, on page 51

1 matches

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