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The word 'biles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bilesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91311
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of biles in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Fir fit biles dry, rins caal. on page 6

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
@LeftPeggers I agree, biles ma piss ah these polarised vi (2023) twitter link
#bbcscotlandsportsound really biles ma bleed. The usual keich abo (2021) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
@advancedref Biles the kettle(2020)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@BatesMoira Biles ma blood !(2020)

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
eed tae bring yer skin oot in biles as big as walnuts on yer skin on page 101

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Lallans 73 - The Unco Spate, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Dundee, poetry
biles up the bonnie banks, on page 11

1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
braveheart iver! Aye, whit it biles doon tae is this - be yer ai on page

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
WILL SORT OOT COO PLOOKS, COO BILES, BAUCHLED HORNS, BUHLS WI FOO on page 29
Geordie Biles It Up on page 32

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
al business, ken. But whit it biles doon tae, richt, is a poisono on page 36

1 matches

McCabe, Mary Lallans 73 - Soond shift, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
nane ae us has bracken oot in biles an carbuncles on page 49

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
ep stirrin aa tha time tae it biles an let it bile awa fur a guid on page 28

1 matches

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