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The word 'berry'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
berryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus62013
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 23.2 9 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 1
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 berry in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
aebody felt laek aetin a hill berry.
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
k the speen an scrape oot the berry pan." . on page 87

1 matches

(South) East Central

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
book “Nip Nebs and the Last Berry” could not have been writte
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 62 - Blue Lift Snaw, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ft itsel. Her face broun as a berry. For whaur she belangs doun i
s mornin, her skin broun as a berry wi the Spanish sun, juist lik
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
al dream. Afore Charles Welsh Berry dee'd, this dream cam true, t
Charles Welsh Berry wis born in the Lang Toun o K
he buik is weel named, as C W Berry maks guid yuiss o the narrati
in the biographical innin, CW Berry's ain consait o life is whit
C W Berry's faimly, that seems tae hae
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West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
harlene, It means he could go berry pickin durin the summer so th on page 132

1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
ted by his own lean, scuddie, berry-fed bodie than he wis by that
1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
ether it's like a sweet young berry next an auld on page 3

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
berries, smiled and pouked a berry aff Sunny's plate. Lookin at on page 72

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Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Less Trauchle Nor A Bairn, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
hole she’d dug ahent a big berry buss in the gairden. ‘Sleep
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Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
Ilka berry growed in the gairden wis pic
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@LairnScots tweeted
ts fir 'Nip Nebs and the Last Berry' by the very talentit @SusiBr (2019) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
berry-broune fae fishin Glaisnock w on page 21
berry blossums oot in stracht lines on page 23

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