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The word 'borrow'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
borrowOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11715
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 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 21 2 2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 56.9 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of borrow in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Wid tae mak a borrow fur the dung on page 57

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Hurl the borrow up the brae on page 93

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
ice heard da Rabbit sayin, "A borrow-foo'll dö ta start wi." on page 40

2 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
st thing Brian hedd ta do wis borrow oot da sheep's muck. Bit he s on page 8

1 matches

Aberdeen

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
a siller run oot an A hid tae borrow siller tae buy mair fuskie, s on page 98

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
scaring ma Grunny, I let her borrow ma phone and use up some o ma
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ic libraries like this let ye borrow books and tak them hame?' on page 13
hat taucht the big bairns and borrow a gey wheen o books on algebr on page 84

2 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
possibility ay eye contact. I borrow another bauble tae force ma h on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
uisin the pouer o the law ti borrow the securitie an sae pit the on page 25

1 matches

Annand, J. K. Lallans 75 - Yule, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, weans
I’ll borrow my big brother’s,
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
one" kind o thing? Or dae ye borrow an tak thum back? It wid get (2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
nak Sunak has the ability tae borrow mair and mair money. The Scot(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Lallans 67 - Two poems by Betty Tindal, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Dumfries, poetry
onybody ivver again, want tae borrow ma view? on page 129

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
dyhoey: disnae mean we cannae borrow it - it's a bonnie wurd ; ). (2014) twitter link

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
t weather or when I couldn’t borrow the car - “weel, ye’ll jis(2020)