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The word 'biggan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bigganOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.274
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 2
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of biggan in Corpus

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Orkney

Tait, Ruth Gallows Ha - Watchan Eyes, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
They started biggan a small hoose high up oan the on page 9

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
otun afore them the Lights is biggan a face. Thir isno anither wir on page 120
an sweep the floar. Eynar is biggan a bar i'the corner. On stage, on page 127

3 matches

General Central

@IshbelMcF tweeted
ggin the yaise o Scots in the biggan as a hale. ?? An aw instituti(2019)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
he mune sclims high abuin ilk biggan, on page 37
No a biggan nor tithe, on page 47

2 matches

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