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The word 'shillins'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shillinsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.81911
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 153.7 3 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of shillins in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
ook da answer doon ta pounds, shillins an pence. on page 112

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
e factor said wid mak a fyowe shillins. She’d begged him tae leave
1 matches

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
Bids back then were shillins or, sometimes half-croons. on page 11

1 matches

General Northern

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 58 - The Bothy Loon, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
2 pennies in a shillin and 20 shillins in a pound; I could coont a f on page 124

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ad, which wis only aroun five shillins, hardly a lot o money. They w on page 105
o siller, aroun twa punds ten shillins in his pooches, but as he han on page 106

4 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
, then reduced the answer tae shillins an pence. on page 109

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
, an reduced the answer intae shillins an pence. on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
y micht weel be makin fifteen shillins a week - mair nor twice his on page 17

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ey're stotious. Fient the few shillins that lot puit in the till! No on page 72

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
a subscription list at three shillins a copy, an gin we get eneuch
ch, Johnie . . . but at three shillins, I’d raither tred ye a leg
2 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
up, an reduced th answer tae shillins an pence. on page 110

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
p, an reduce't the answer tae shillins an pence. on page 111

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Gibson, Darren Oul money, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
imalised coinage). Tae thaim, shillins an tanners an thruppeny-bits
dinnae hae tae wark wi puns, shillins an pence nooadays. A’m no s
rth 2/6. Then a florin or twa shillins or twa bob, folliet wi yin bo
3 matches

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