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The word 'railins'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
railinsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.82212
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 32.8 3 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.7 7 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
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 railins in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
Behint the grid o railins, within the waas, on page 111

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
leenin ower the wrought-iron railins. "Fit're you lookin so happy on page 10

1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
the front door staps an blaik railins afore aat. Weel, aat's faar a on page 88
in masel up wi the help o the railins. A doot A'm nae sae swack as on page 89

3 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Scottish Faust: Poems and Ballads of Eldritch Lore, (Kettillonia 2004) Central, poetry
a dyke that's tapped wi airn railins
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
€™s surroondit by these black railins. Thur auld, really auld. Ye c
every wan ae these auld rusty railins is tapped wae a nasty-lookin
is staunin in front ae these railins and we’d marked oot his goa
danger ae gaun clear ower the railins and intae the park ahint.
d up hittin wan ae they spike railins. It wis defo travellin oan th
6 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Gleamin fences, rusty railins, on page 94

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ye cin see 'mort-safes', iron railins pit ower grave slabs tae deny on page 108

1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
streetlight drew back fae the railins an there wiz jist this black
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
, haudin him back against the railins. He’s no fur gien up though
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
stoats oot an skites aff the railins oan either side ay the path l
1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
y stuck a haun oot atween the railins an slapped Tam's jaws rapidly on page 48

3 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Bairns ootside, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ar climbin; up lamposts, ower railins. We skippit wi ropes, playit
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Lallans 67 - Two poems by Betty Tindal, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Dumfries, poetry
We're still wi'oot oor railins, ever sin the war. on page 129

1 matches

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