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The word 'furlin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
furlinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6155
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 36 11 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 furlin in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Onybody spewes," he said, furlin roon in is seat, "an it'll co on page 19

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ertainment cam on: a flurry o furlin folk duncers aat war makkin h on page 15
n like he wis dementit, airms furlin like a winmill. "You leave ma on page 16
e Mad yatter's Tea Party - a furlin taycup ride aat lookit hairml on page 39

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
y smairt," said Harry Mintie, furlin roon in is seat. "Ah'v heard on page 11

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
n auld hydro pylons aneth the furlin ribbon o steel an glaiss that
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
Rosy glowered at Whigmaleerie furlin an fleein up aside a
them, there wis Whigmaleerie furlin an birlin up in the lift an s
tor DID cam tae Plong. He cam furlin doon in a fey fleein
limmrin in the sun, birlin an furlin in time tae the pipes, heich
dauncers airched their airms, furlin an birlin in the joy o the mu
5 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
look oot for the mill, smoke furlin oot, an she wid ken she wis n on page 14

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Dother o the Sea, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric, weans
naebody'd iver daunced afore, furlin and birlin and glauncin. Ilki on page 123

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
e sat ere on the fleer, stars furlin
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Names furlin on burnt on page 22

1 matches

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