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The word 'blah'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
blahOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.9339
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 41.4 17 3
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 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 blah 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.

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ff and aboot me how ill I wiz blah blah but it wiz the end o the
blah but it wiz the end o the arti
2 matches

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
puffed oot, her mooth workin blah, blah. Above it aw ah heard C on page 7

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
osition. Yur interview is oan blah, blah, blah, suck yur cock wh on page 135

3 matches

McFarlane, Ishbel Maun we mak new wirds fir a chyngin warld?, (The National 2020) Central, newspaper
ae the near-universal joke ‘blah blah blah helicopter blah bla
blah blah helicopter blah blah blah’. A’d be surprised g
blah’. A’d be surprised gin ye
ously, the fowk tellin the ‘blah blah blah helicopter blah bla
blah blah helicopter blah blah blah’ joke aw speak Latin.
6 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
how ah should know better an blah blah blah; it wis that way ah on page 169

3 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
toch, "See some hink it wis a blah blah castle, but it uised tae on page 3

3 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
t, it's this, it's tha', it's blah blah chuffin' blah. An' then, on page

3 matches

Goodbrand Saunders, Donald Lallans 67 - Twa Owresettins frae Heine, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Threatened blah blah..." (The pith o't: Property.) on page 55

2 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
en there's nae Democracy..... blah blah blah ?? (2022) twitter link

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