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The word 'lambin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lambinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.7196
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 3
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
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 96.1 9 2
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 lambin in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
wis oot checkin his yowes at lambin time, an fan her at six o'clo on page 16

1 matches

Williamson, Christie Böd, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2012) Shetland, poetry
laek a lambin sun
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
helping da yowes when dey ir lambin. Wi da wye time is fleein hit
ye time is fleein hit’ll be lambin time agaen afore we ken hit.
2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
y - on the hill alane wi his lambin yowes an his thochts; on the on page 33
on the brae face. They wad be lambin in a couple o weeks. She slip on page 43
s wad tak a score o blackface lambin yowes an three or fower nowt; on page 50
e harrowtn, the sawin, an the lambin - an wi the wicked warld gac on page 55
had been taiglt in the stell, lambin a yowe wi twins. Ane o thaim, on page 57
Also on pages 74
8 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
In Spring the lambin, Simmer the shearin,
1 matches

General Central

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
y kye I've got - an hou mony lambin yowes! I don't like it... The on page 17

3 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
lambin fur the Bryden’s it Wudburn
the Lambin bein ae thrang tyme fur sheep
kin the sheep, helping wi the lambin, hervestin the fodder fur tha
3 matches

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