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The word 'birls'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
birlsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.53118
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 4
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 17.3 13 6
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) 204.9 4 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of birls in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Øyvind birls a pod in his lang on page 6
the chaenge." An the staetion birls. on page 99
Sheu braethes; hid swaalls an birls; ithe mids o the wheel sheu d on page 100

3 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
birls an wips dem, tips dem fae his on page 19

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
he birls a lass aff her feet, shaas he on page 69

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
they baith caa oot. The tree birls like a peerie an cowps the au
1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
he stammygastert offisher, he birls him roon an roon the livin ro on page 82

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
A muckle wheel richt doucely birls
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ng bit o wire, and the papper birls it roond and roond his or her on page 104

1 matches

Hardie, George Lallans 73 - Pop Gaes the Idol, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Hamilton, poetry
While life birls like a carousel on page 114

1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
uv a speech impediment. Scots birls roon ma brain bit ah’m comp
1 matches

Kirk Jn, Albert Better Thigether, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
that birls his thairm flype
1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 82 - Biggin the Great Nor Road, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
plate. The parabola o pottage birls. on page 67

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
The sun birls oan on page 14
A pleisance birls alang ma hert: on page 78
as she birls on page 82

3 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
'Nou the planet birls richt roond in ae meenit, an on page 52

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
a peerie that birls. on page 30

1 matches

Johnston, Mary Lallans 73 - Ceilidh, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
birls aboot, on page 115

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
wabbles back an forrit as it birls aboot the Sun an the hail gir
metallic bree that fleets an birls. An aneath this, at the hert
thing aboot this warld as it birls withershins aboot itsel ilka
tae gang-roond. As thir moons birls aboot thay pull at ane anithe
shiftin o the Milky Wey as it birls roond micht gie the necessar
5 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - Sloth, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
his heid birls wi philosophical thochts
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Inaboot ma heid it birls, on page 24
Wi oxster strang a crane birls roon on page 26
An birls it roond his wrist on page 32
As tha oul yirth birls an years skite, skelpin by on page 39

4 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Warl ill divid whar war aye birls on page 5

1 matches

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