Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'flailin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

flailin	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.3	11	8
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	2.4	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	15.4	3	2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
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)	196.7	3	2
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)	32.8	1	1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of flailin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
teerin aboot the cairt an the flailin horse like flees. Some weemin
1 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
Wi gowstie braith or flailin feet, an I on page 60

1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie O pigs and dugs: what for dae we treat them sae different?, (Mak Forrit 2024) Central - Edinburgh, blog
grund chaumers like this ane. Flailin aboot and pechin for breith,
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
fir graspin an splutterin an flailin fir the attention ay other mi on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
it remains ay the small crowd flailin his airms aboot. ‘WHIT YIES
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
They struggle; a whirlwind ay flailin airms an legs as each ay them
1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Wi gowsty breath or flailin feet, an I on page 45

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Flailin their brenched sticks on page 27
Frae the flailin legs, wur on page 29

2 matches

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
F fur flailin' aboot ait nicht, on page 13

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
s an airms an airse buckin an flailin on page 18

1 matches