A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bl'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
blOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.32112
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 110.4 19 10
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 10.5 1 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bl in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
deep wi a knife he'll usually blöd; an shö wis never forgott on page 13

1 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
you is da new covenant in my blöd. D6 dis as you mind on me. on page 143

1 matches

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
SAAT I DE BLöD on page 14
mön i dy veins, a lump i de blöd whit set du here, ir mibbe on page 42

2 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
Dønna bie blæt. on page 14

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
birl o blöd-red, da fiord ice-blue, on page 26

1 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Lallans 58 - Eicht poems bi Robert Alan Jamieson, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
Blød fæ da hjook merk on page 27

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
black comes fae Aald English blæc/blacc- (Northumbrian), mea on page 102

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Boys rin fae scol, barefit, blöd-spring, on page 63
as da fish blöd elted on page 64
wis, we hearna da voice o da blöd on page 93

5 matches

Sinclair, James Makkin Hame, (Shetland For Wirds 2018) Shetland, poetry
sea coorse trowe him, lik da blöd
1 matches

Sutherland, Stella Midder, (Shetland For Wirds 2014) Shetland, poetry
my mortal years wid wear, her blöd
nearer as braeth, or blöd, or bane,
2 matches

Sutherland, Stella Half a Twalmont, (Shetland For Wirds 2014) Shetland, poetry
da vimmer ida blüd? -
1 matches

Graham, Laurence Flans Frae Da Haaf, (Shetland For Wirds 2000) Shetland, poetry
Reeb’d red as yatlin blöd.
1 matches

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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
cts the Danish cellist Erling Blöndal Bengtsson. Ye can fin m on page 11

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Cartmill, Claire Three score years an ten, (Ballymoney and Moyle Times 2014) Ulster, newspaper
her rid a bike ir waaked, tae Bl’easton ir Tildarg
1 matches

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