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The word 'barked'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
barkedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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 barked in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
like dogs, sae his sheen jist barked at nicht.
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ng Sgt wis a scarey sojier an barked tae me; “How fit are ye?” Â(2014)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
"Dinna be feel!" barked Mary. "Ah dinna mean it wis f on page 35

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
hersel tae her full heicht an barked like a dug. The cat turnt an
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ae hing ye three times ower!' barked Claverhouse, 'but we'll no wa on page 45

1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
'Tam!' barked Mr. MacNeil. 'Let's go back t on page 40
cation conference. He quickly barked an order tae the cless tae st on page 43

2 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
o him. My goad whit a man, he barked at ye aa the time an dinned d on page 120

1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
rly, it wis that bright. Lugs barked and I heard a piercing sound,
1 matches

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