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The word 'obed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
obedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.4274
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
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 24 18 1
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) 90.8 5 1

Occurrences of obed in Corpus

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
rried an dey hed a bairn caad Obed wha wis da grandfedder o King on page 20

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
hab wis his mither), Boaz tae Obed (his mither wis Ruth), Obed t on page 7
o Daavit, sin o Jesse, sin o Obed, sin o Boaz, sin o Salmon, si on page 85

3 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
er, a kind man wha. wis cried Obed, had aften spoken aboot them, on page 5
wis a gey wee village,' said Obed. 'It wis really jist a puckle on page 6
'Sae there I wis,' Obed gaed on. T had gane tae spend on page 8
Obed shook his heid. 'I fund oot e on page 11
e haein a dream which is whit Obed did at first when he saw the on page 13
Also on pages 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
18 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Rahab. Boaz wus tha faither o Obed, an tha mither o Obed wus Rut on page 1
Jesse wus tha sinn o Obed. on page 75

5 matches

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