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The word 'backlins'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
backlinsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus62010
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 5
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 44.3 10 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 backlins in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
But you turned da cat backlins in trow da door. on page 48

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Grottie-Buckie and Tirli-Wirli, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997352) Shetland, weans
ck-burdeen, he cummelled owre backlins. on page 25

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
-lins: backlins 'backwards' (back + - lins) on page 43

1 matches

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
dis time we were nearly gyaan backlins. Da traaler passed wir boo an
1 matches

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
way he goes, sometimes waakin backlins. Young an athoot care or wirr
1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 57 - Mac, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Doric, prose
ment, fin he caad himsel ower backlins an fell twal fit intae e gair on page 27

1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
A bittie taiselt, she stappit backlins, an efter gomin aagaits for t on page 29
neist knaggie, far she keekit backlins for jist a mintie tae say "Fa on page 35
Midgie, (Ailice drew her feet backlins in a bittie o a fleg), "ye'll on page 43
t, "for sicecar, TV' nae ging backlins," she thocht tae hersel, an i on page 44
t a clap, but it jist stertit backlins a wheen, an syne steed gomin on page 45
Also on pages 47, 65, 92
10 matches

Edinburgh

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
And sae the thing wes shiftit backlins. on page 98

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
Backlins-comin tae the soothwart hills on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - In Liverpool Cathedral, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
They read the Latin backlins on page 103

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 71 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
e be haein a keek an is niver backlins-comin. O aw the registert uis
1 matches

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