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The word 'births'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
birthsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3107
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 3
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 births in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
yed wae me. She's good at the births. The birth wis long and hard on page 21

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. New Lambs, Owld Stone, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
f sterts tae happen. Multiple births. Easy lambeens. Bad lambeens.
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
thocht, ere's ane fir aathin: births, mairrages, daiths; anes fir on page 24

1 matches

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
things in life - registerin births, deiths an marriages - takki
1 matches

General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ti the pages whaur mairiages, births an daiths haed been eydently on page 28

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
chts his lamp, it is as if he births anither starn, or anither flo on page 50

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
The neist step is births, deiths, an mairrages. Nooada on page 40

4 matches

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