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The word 'vairse'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
vairseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9163
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 17.7 7 2
WCE - West Central 32.2 7 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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)
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 vairse in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
x thousan poems an twa hunner vairse dramas. It's weill seen he we on page 45

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
he's a skeily wirdsmith. The vairse rins true an naitural, as gin on page 121
hae been mindit in daithless vairse bi the likes o Graves, Sassoo on page 122
ce, an the auncient anonymous vairse frae aboot 1580, The Bewteis on page 123

5 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
k) Voices O The Abbey Waas (a vairse pley, i the Scots, for thrie
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
iein advice on hou ti skreive vairse! Wi aw thon on offer, what's on page 5

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
McCabe maks braw vairse oot o a whein Macbeth-like fr on page 10

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
he ane conteint in Chapter 3, Vairse 16. Lorimer renders it as: Fo on page 136
na warldlie-wyce, epistolarie vairse, is the jek-aisie luikin rhym on page 141

4 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ne wes his hinmaist clekkin o vairse, cawed ‘Incantations’; ti
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
founnit he didna herten nyow vairse, bot socht pross ti prent, th on page 10
nou kent as fowk-sang, heir 'vairse' yit in guid tift, thare 'pro on page 25

2 matches

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