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The word 'mebbies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mebbiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus18.1587
ORK - Orkney
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 25.6 10 2
WCE - West Central 50.6 11 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 361.8 29 1
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 mebbies in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
ue bunnil, lyke til a cadger, mebbies? on page 48

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
happenins i thair awn airts. Mebbies, gin he’d been til the fore
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
thai war gey auld farrant an mebbies ein bene ma auldfaither’s,
ke ben hir schoppin-bag. Thai mebbies bene brak on the buss, shae j
fur wir academik failyie, or mebbies shae sein a lak o soshwal ske
Rab ti alter ti a wie offish mebbies.
Ulster fowk intil Cumbria, at mebbies bene pairt o
8 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
up til his rerr ensaumpil. An mebbies this is what John wad a wanti on page 3

2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
in in owersettins o warks bi (mebbies) the warld's skeilliest skrei on page 116

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
Broun! Weill, mebbies no, but it's a braw poem aw t on page 10

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
isc, sae gin ye want ti hear, mebbies, the storie o the 'Waddin at on page 135

2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
he feiction itsel (the oncum, mebbies, that Scott himsel, an his ne
cides ti inquire at a medium, mebbies sum-hou ti laern what haes be
dville kent that the room wes mebbies hauntit, but pit Browne intil
3 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
in ti grup tae life or it wes mebbies ower late!), an in the absorb
inescapable’, (an this haes mebbies led monie ti regaird it as â€
2 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
et buttrie wi a suppie jam or mebbies cheese. Ony Ye hivvy gaun spa(2020)
s. Lantren the day an soup or mebbies haggis the morn.(2020)

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
taunce as ither langages dae? Mebbies he is sayin at, kiz wichtkein on page 13

1 matches

General Central

Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ks as Zola's classic Germinal mebbies, or Orwell's early essays?). on page 133

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
facto tradeitional staundart. Mebbies it'll mend the skaith they ha on page 56

1 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
r haerd o Wildlaw? Wul lawers mebbies, but thon’s anither thing a
treamin’? Daft-like nories? Mebbies ‘ay’ an mebbies ‘na’.
‘ay’ an mebbies ‘na’.
3 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
n ae rickle o stanes fur, ay, mebbies 50 yeir nou an Craik Sheil, w
laist tyme A saw Bertie, ay, mebbies 40 ‘ear syne; hei wis dreiv
mebbies threi myle owre the hills i o
sittin, liggin an mebbies yin or twae agrouf on the bra
rnscleuch, Reidfordshire, wur mebbies the laist resident
29 matches

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