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Use in varieties of Scots

backie Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.6 1 28.6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences212 19 0 0 0 0
Number of authors11 1 10

Occurrences of backie in Corpus

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Central

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
re. Ah widnae let ye gie me a backie, that's aw ah'll say on the m on page 1

2 matches

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
On i'trampoline in their backie! on page 133
Sittin in a cooncil backie, sikin' oot some sun. on page 144
His quine wiz in i'backie on page 172

4 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
n yer clyse, an ging roon the backie, wi a snell wind blaain an th on page 75

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
wee windae luikit oot ower a backie fu o coal sheds an fooshtit t
1 matches

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
r if ye wis lucky, out in the backie agin the wa if ye wisnae. Bit
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
. They’d come roon intae ma backie for a yap so I could see ye..
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
e the helicopter doon into my backie. An Officer starts descending
as broken apart – across ma backie, there’s clythes, burst pil
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
lapsed, the gear shed oot the backie got brunt tae the grun wi aa
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
€™d heard a commotion oot the backie and Catty myowin in agony. Sh
they’d been sittin oot the backie enjoyin a quiet drink fin som
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
birdies wad gaither roon her backie in the foreneen wytin fur a b
ddle wisna tae be seen at yer backie. She’d hytered ower a rug i
2 matches

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
@CMonaghanSNP Gies a backie ??(2019) search twitter

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
v now ‘is wikend or we still backie scoofin’? #(2020) search twitter

@DoricPhrases tweeted
FaÂ’s fur a backie? http://t.co/CrDoN7yVyc(2014) search twitter

@FaeFoggie tweeted
ful. Looks like a photie o ma backie ??(2019) search twitter

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