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The word 'banshee'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bansheeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11712
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 20.5 4 4
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of banshee in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Then he screamed like a banshee, "Fur God's sake lie ower! An on page 72

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ife, garrin it skreich like a banshee) the Deil gart aa his pupils
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
his lugs an skreiched like a banshee as it furled aff ower the eel
the win howlin ootbye like a banshee. At 10pm she tuik a bit keek
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
, skreichin an spittin like a banshee, an Growler wis lowpin
1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
mman wallochin ahin me like a banshee.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
crabbit yin wis wailin like a banshee. on page 36

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
in was still skraichin like a banshee an he had his heid scruncht d on page 65
in was still skratchin like a banshee an he had his heid scrunchit on page 69

2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
ist. He screams like a fuckin banshee an so does Dolly but hers is on page 28

1 matches

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
an main banshee asks the, whit turns oot tae on page 53

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
As yin banshee caws tae its spectral curse o on page 29

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
etween her Ma screamin like a banshee at Haudit an Daudit oer a bre
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
A banshee's shaidae on page 14

1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
tin an screamin like a feckin banshee(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
r a bogle, or a brownie, or a banshee, or a wraith, or a pelt. on page 13
Aabody knows tha banshee's screich on page 25

2 matches

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