A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bleester'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bleesterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.174
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 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 bleester in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Fairbairn, Jamie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Banff, newspaper
tap. It'll be blaain a richt bleester, so be prepared. Doon fae ess on page 37

1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
aff the sea - blawin a richt bleester https://t.co/2IF8qJJUby (2020) twitter link

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
When ye maun thole the bleester an the skolder, on page 94

1 matches

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
aw-naw. A hate 'at! Better no bleester. Bet hit daes an aw. Bet A gi on page 1

4 matches

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