A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'barr'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
barrOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9139
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
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 barr in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
body aroon her spakk the same barr mebbe Isie. Even Matty, fa'd
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
wed it wiz empty. Athing gone barr the chair she sat on, the cly
1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
ontil the hairth. The barr wes aye tuim afoir lunch-tim
ir nor twa ruims. The publict-barr luikit out-ower a
a wie loun wi ane enorm pinch barr ower hiz
halp. He stak hiz pinch barr inti the stanes, twycet, an a
Bi wanfortun, the barr wes nou pang-fo o cheils at w
5 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ee porridge. Ye lap it up lit barr ginger up a straw.’
1 matches

Glasgow

Atkins, Elise Billy Barr ’n’ Jonny Jimison’s Day Oot!, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Central, prose
Wee Billy Barr ’n’ his pal Jonny Jimison
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
collided wae an assortment ay Barr’s gingies he must be savin
1 matches

General Central

Ewen, Allan The Blin Man an the Man Wha Couldna See, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
Andrew Redmond Barr (owerset intae Scots by Allan
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
Ivery time Ah see "AG Barr" mentioned on here Ah think i(2020)

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