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The word 'balfour'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
balfourOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus15.4513
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 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 42.7 4 1
LAL - General Central 60.4 46 1
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 balfour in Corpus

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West Central

Aitken, Jim Lallans 104 - A Pauchle o Thochts oan the Middle Aist, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
In 1917 a toff Scot cried Balfour said naething shall be done t on page 25

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
er callant by the name o John Balfour. He'd heard tell that they'd on page 35
iefin his officers, Hackston, Balfour, John Loudoun, Robert Flemmin on page 36
the sodgers on the grun. John Balfour came roun ahint wi his horses on page 37

4 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Sir James Balfour o Pittendreich, Bothwell's co on page 14
Balfour. Ye're keener than the stars, on page 15
(Ti Balfour, Douglas, an Attendant) on page 16
Balfour: The Queen cries a bitter cry on page 17
her haund he's interrupted by Balfour's on page 35

46 matches

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