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goodbye Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.5 6.9 6.4 9.9 0 10.9 4.4
Number of occurrences2013 4 1 0 1 1
Number of authors16 10 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of goodbye in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
earin that day. Ah could kiss goodbye tae gaun oot tae play wi ma p on page 40
bedroom, and we said a happy goodbye. As ah hugged him, ma nose tw on page 44

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Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
for sayin "Ta-ra" insteid o "Goodbye", or been mocked for uising B
1 matches

Macdonald, Amy Evelynn and Peter, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
bar, forgetting tae even say goodbye. Aw that’s going through ma
"Well goodbye, Ah’ll be back tae see ye s
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Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah hang up wi’oot sayin goodbye.
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
st as she’d been kissin him goodbye ae mornin – she had spent a
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
up, wi' my pal Davie, tae say goodbye tae Ma, Glenshee's no' the sa
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
ar the fact we’d never said goodbye and kept goin ower and ower i
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
Goodbye twitter......time tae study! (2015) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
g me next that ye didnae ken 'goodbye' is a contraction o 'God be w(2020) search twitter

@Sinethugcat tweeted
You can kiss goodbye tae indy and women's rights t (2021) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
real pubs all the way defo - goodbye to sub standard meals n pints (2020) twitter link

Doric

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
thing o ye. I've come ti say goodbye. I never thocht ye wis that k on page 94

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Och, Hello Goodbye, Yesterday an Cry Baby Cry. on page 174
Goodbye rain on page 186

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Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
.A. is three-forty-three p.m. Goodbye.’
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
heek an tried tae kiss Dudley goodbye but missed bekis Dudley wis h
1 matches

Southern

@officialAliRed tweeted
us of the chance of a proper goodbye. Bit oo'l raise a gless regai(2020) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
loud wi disbelief. "I've said goodbye to that war job and now I'm g on page 1

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