Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bilfawst'

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Use in varieties of Scots

bilfawst	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	19	63	10
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	31.4	1	1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)	71.4	2	1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)	164.2	5	1
GUL - General Ulster	227.5	8	2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bilfawst in Corpus

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Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Reynolds, Charlie An Appeal frae tha hairt, (North Antrim Speak 2010) Ulster - Coleraine, blog
an mair boords in tha lake o Bilfawst , tha maak up o these boords m
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
ad at nicht, on thair wie tae Bilfawst, wi nae lichts on - Charlie on page 8
t's tha big Show at Balmoral, Bilfawst is whar it's at, on page 20

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
A Ait tae Bilfawst cudnae skail, on page 28
O Bilfawst on page 33
O Bilfawst. on page 34
An biggit Bilfawst on page 60
Nailin up a Bilfawst Guid Friday thing. on page 61

5 matches

General Ulster

Bennett, Hazel Tha Near Cut, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
Thon’s tha near cut bak til Bilfawst .”
ye wull be bak in tha mids o Bilfawst in nae time ava.” Dorothy g
ha seventies wus ill times in Bilfawst . Tae meet in wi twa lads at a
l in ma motòr tae tha mids o Bilfawst an ye can tak a taxi bak tae
wheesht an tha lichts o norn Bilfawst kythed ablow thaim. As tha ca
5 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
unnered aboot that: my yin is Bilfawst wi nae date. Quare amount o f (2014) twitter link
hn21 I'll hae tae jook in tae Bilfawst efter this oul lockdoon an ge (2020) twitter link