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The word 'barney'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
barneyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.8269
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 80.6 13 2
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of barney in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ir, tae gang ben the road tae Barney’s scrap yaird.
Barney’s scrap yaird wis a dreich
they’d bin plunkit doon in Barney’s scrap yaird. It wisna tha
s scrap yaird. It wisna that Barney wis coorse... maistly he
ghed, she wadna be roostin in Barney’s scrap yaird eenoo. Bit
7 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
An fit's mair, Barney i'bear dunces i'waltz! on page 133

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
risis ti spik aboot lads also Barney nae getting awa on ony jollie(2020)

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
nd tell bout their big fuckin barney after. So there’s the first
l ah disengaged fae the whole barney, try to no let yin Evan tell
2 matches

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Barney the Brain
s me neatly tae the saga o’ Barney the Brain! Barney Duncan wisn
the Brain! Barney Duncan wisni aw’fy bright b
e, there wid be hell tae pay! Barney wid appear at ma door at 12:1
rin’ doon, A thocht, “Nae Barney the day then!” There wis a
11 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ad guitarist hud a monumental barney, the guitarist bludgeonin the
1 matches

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
uld’ve squared that baw??Big barney efter aboot it,but at least y(2019)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
In a stooshie or a barney on page 29

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Cromie, Willie Doon tha Wal Raa, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1739905620) Ulster - Ballywalter, prose
us. It turned oot his da wus Barney McCool. A think that wus tha
1 matches

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