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The word 'birlan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
birlanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.4187
ORK - Orkney 129.2 13 5
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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 3.9 3 1
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 birlan in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
See them birlan and dancean, on page 25

1 matches

Grieve, Issy Gallows Ha - Birlan wae the wather, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Keep on birlan wae the wather. on page 32

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Me heid wis birlan like a top and closeen time w on page 29
erywan gets merry, folk start birlan roond the place on page 70

2 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
on conter airms o the Wheel, birlan, on page 11
whit wan o the starns sheu's birlan noo ~ sheu shills her peedie on page 74
he timer coontan doon? Foo an birlan roon Wolf, mibbe a body wis m on page 103
wi his bairn, liftan thaim an birlan roond, an at the new-naemed y on page 132
ps an skips is naet an queek, birlan each ither wi weel-kent airms on page 135
Also on pages 151, 157
7 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Birlan roond an roond. on page 121

1 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Birlan wae th' wather on page 153

1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
the pup raised a weet snarl, birlan a coracle o on page 19
fur a right eezer up the lum, birlan kettle, bannock on page 23

2 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
in up in wonder at the slawly birlan starwheel. Bidin on the daw t on page 17

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
throu the birlan and the fauldin o the years, on page 97

2 matches

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