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The word 'bleat'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bleatOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 bleat in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
I unnerstaun it as the bleat o sheep (2020) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Thae sheep wha bleat the loudest i' the buchts on page 42

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ang in the lift, an a heather-bleat whurred its dounward, dartin on page 50
hinner-en when it gied a wee bleat, stauchert tae its feet, an s on page 57

2 matches

General Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
If that lambie winna bleat nae mair on page 30

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris On Times Austere, (words.krishaddow.com 2012) Central, poetry
O Maisters! Wha bleat rhetoric
1 matches

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