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The word 'barge'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bargeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6157
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 27.9 11 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of barge in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
r lads, wur arrested sailin a barge doon the canal.' on page 1

9 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
er fae thus shitty weather ah barge past thum which results in a on page 176

1 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
t tae go near them way a 10ft barge pole, they wurr a bunch eh st
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
e English lines, tae hack an' barge,
1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
an the like. Efter the royal barge haed passed oot o sicht, they
1 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
rse! Winnae touch him with ma barge pole...(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
plaised, wi deil tha wife tae barge, on page 3

1 matches

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