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The word 'blastin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
blastinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus41310
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 18.2 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of blastin in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Playin my CDs dat am usually blastin in da car dusna hiv quite da (2020) twitter link

@tattooedselkie tweeted
nds me o haein @SIBC_Shetland blastin on runs tae Lerook whin I wis(2021)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
hailsteens in yer face, shot-blastin yer skin till ye bled. It wen on page 29

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Aldo. Even Oasis's Wonderwall blastin fae the jukeboax cannae muffl on page 72

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ae been preparin tae dae some blastin onywey. On the ither haun, th
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
it roon a table in the lounge blastin tunes ("Jigs,' so Iona inform on page 3

2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
The van’s horn blastin at me brings ma attention sha
briefs behind - some ay them blastin their horns - an shakes his
2 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
hon central heatin' an' start blastin'! on page

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
get the 7:84 Theatre Company, blastin intil the public consciousnes
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
uns then, close tae her heid, blastin brainches aff the trees.
mmer nicht she heard the guns blastin, she went doon tae the wids.
2 matches

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