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The word 'bla'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
blaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9167
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 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
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 74.9 6 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 bla in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
aɪ /graɪs/ (grice), /blaɪd/ (blyde), /waɪ/ (wye), /g on page 24
l alveolar lateral /blaɪd/ (blyde) on page 26
nventions, fir example blyde /blaɪd_/, wrocht on page 36

3 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
s hersel, the cauld win cudna bla on him. Wi Minnie, she gaed t
1 matches

General Northern

TheChielMeister Ah'm e chiel (sae dinna fash), (youtube.com 2011) Doric, poetry
Ah feelt ma heid wis gaun tae bla' up sic wis e wye shae spak t
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
a place cad Fittie on one icy bla'ing a hooly day, lived an aul(2018)

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
Bla, bla, bla. But then aw ae a sudden the
1 matches

South East (Borders)

@cammyrudkin tweeted
f wus shite, the ref wus crap bla bla bla becca says cum on the(2020)
f wus shite, the ref wus crap bla bla bla becca says cum on the(2020)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
ir best frien's tae a half o' Bla'k Bush, on page 29

1 matches

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