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The word 'faalin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
faalinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6123
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 62.8 2 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 199 7 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of faalin in Corpus

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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
’s ne’er worriet aboot me faalin aff a bank in the daark,” s
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
hirsel afore shae fun hirsel faalin doon a wile deep well. on page 8
akt-fancy, curtseyin es yae'r faalin through the air! Dae yae thin on page 9

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
n the air, his voice risin an faalin, glen efter undulatin glen o on page 11
ea an sky. She swum, risin an faalin ower the rawlin September tid on page 50

2 matches

General Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne A Furst Readin Book in Ulster Scots, (Evertype 2011) Ulster, weans
n Little sed, “The sky baes faalin. A wull rin?
“The sky baes faalin, Henny Penny: Henny Penny sed
ny Penny sed, “The sky baes faalin, Turkey Lurkey.’ “Hoo dae
y Lurkey sed, “The sky baes faalin, Ducky Lucky’
ky Lucky sed, “The sky baes faalin, Goosey Loosey. “Hoo dae ya
7 matches

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