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The word 'blad'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bladOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6159
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 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 42.2 3 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of blad in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
nryson, mi freen, fit aboot a blad or twa fae you,' an he raxed on page 54

1 matches

General Northern

Skinner, Alison C. Tales Fae The Doric Side - Leaves, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
er taen tae "for fear she wid blad it". She laid the leaves by i on page 23

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 108, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
e awned that his meenisterial blad haedna gien him onie muckle c
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
he caups, an the wes a maipil blad, kythin
nor this wie blad.
2 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
"Gif ye dinna pit thon blad this verra gliff intil yer po on page 9

1 matches

General Central

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
yon! A baskin shark kythes on blad 150, whan a fusherman hes his on page 91

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ots ti translate an offeecial blad inti Scots, the leid finnds i
cobble thegither an offeecial blad ad hoc frae leeterary or coll
e o thae maks in an offeecial blad (or onie writin, for that mai
3 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
The screivar ahin the 1706 blad (see PDF ablow) threapit on t
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
sicna lenth, he haesna white blad eneuch left him here ti tell on page 5

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
e a dander, an they hae a wee blad wi aa the crack aboot it in # (2015) twitter link
hon #Rugby ? They hae a quare blad o sangs - cannae unnerstaun (2015) twitter link
A hail blad o the aul Ulster Scots aboot (2014) twitter link