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The word 'mibby'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mibbyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.4276
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 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 55.2 12 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.4 10 3
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 mibby 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.

Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
an empty chair, mibby you on page 123

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. Tame Hogmanay, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
heard lately. I hope ye’ll mibby brave the cowld waather and d
1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
n a doonpour o shootan stars. Mibby folk hiv been celebratan Bonf
‘Weel, I cheust thowt … mibby … it wis sometheen tae dae
2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
nt wi a shiropidist. Ah says, Mibby he could help fix yir feet an on page 12
the easiest wan. He said, Aye mibby. Ah said, Harpreet's dead goo on page 15
mibby even fancy him a wee bit. on page 35
id yi wear. Somethin nice lik mibby a summer dress cause we could on page 112
nnae you jist eat wan an then mibby she'll dae it. Laur looked li on page 137
Also on pages 138, 161, 169
10 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2020) Central, prose
nt wi a shiropidist. Ah says, Mibby he could help fix yir feet an
the easiest wan. He said, Aye mibby. Ah said, Harpreet’s dead g
2 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
rayin for me. A cud be wrang; mibby there is a fairy godfaither i on page 48

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
dee'd. It is jaloused the war mibby a million fowk in Scotland an on page 110

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
traivel sic lang lengths. But mibby, jist mibby, the’r means th
, jist mibby, the’r means that we haena
e gait. Gin this is richt, it mibby gies us the reason we haena h
ject, either roonaboot it, or mibby seein whit appears tae be a s
, or somehoo, even veesit. Or mibby thay’ll tell us thay awread
5 matches

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
iphsays Sno rainin heer- yit. Mibby ah’ll wait tae pit ma washin(2020)
@RobertMiggins Ye wir mibby a wee bit carnaptious an crab(2020)

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