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The word 'refrain'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
refrainOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81610
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 4
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) 58.1 1 1
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 refrain in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
ot him and sang oot this lood refrain, on page 68
nd knives ring oot their lood refrain As a'body sits and glaips the on page 70
egither and sing oot the same refrain - "Cheust gie the grumpy bug on page 81

3 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
dly fasten your seatbelts and refrain from smoking? Thank you!" on page 41

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
time I've hungir pain, I mist refrain on page 150

1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
ohn, uisin a line at becums a refrain: Ha, ha, ha, ha poor John's a on page 139
wn seingularitie bi means o a refrain: Nane kens the half o what I on page 141

3 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Mouse Eat Mouse World, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
the nuclear grease monkey's refrain
1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
hae kenned love is oor sweet refrain, on page 91

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Comes the tortured eternal refrain. on page 17
s, tak heed fur aw wur sakes, refrain fae chattin shite. on page 26

2 matches

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
y, chivalry? Faurthermair the refrain kyths in relief by the repeat on page 63
tsel, Spea-kin Hert, and that refrain, gil-le...flo-ur, they aurall on page 64

2 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 67 - In Search o Robert Henrysoun, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Or mibbe even chant the sweet refrain around the room, on page 123

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
Tae pree an crack wi loud refrain; Sing bawdy songs an sangs 0 on page 59

1 matches

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