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The word 'birn'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
birnOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.1179
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 birn in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
His airms birn. His een tift. He growes shai on page 29

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
o marra He said "Iae get this birn hame Ye'll gey near need a ba on page 15

3 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
kle better. Ye load fowk wi a birn on their shoother, an winna t on page 101

1 matches

General Northern

Johnston, Mary Lallans 82 - Life Spang, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
's achteen year fen he his ae birn efter anither on his shooders on page 26

1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
“A dinna wiss ti birn ye wi yit mair infurmautioun,
I the circumstaunces, A winna birn ye wi thur
an, i fak he wes nou skin an birn i the hauns o a
Nou at John wes frie a mukkil birn bene liftit frae Ruth’s
4 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
It remaned ti wale a beiss o birn. Nou a horss is a fine leddie on page 3

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
gane, an anerlie the beiss o birn levit ... gif A hed ane inkli on page 4

1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
sudden frae some immeisurable birn, an even cast a fain ee at th on page 140

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
'A didnae want tae birn yer scuil-bag lest weik. A ju on page 23
'A didnae want tae birn yer scuil-buiks. A wisnae thi on page 24

2 matches

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
A birn o plaikies wes cuist ower his
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
an aw the birn o dule o the
1 matches

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