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The word 'barbara'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
barbaraOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.12311
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 45.8 14 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 barbara in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
So Barbara and Sheila, on page 25

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Barbara ma sister on page 15

4 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
Barbara markit the last o the bairns' on page 94

8 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Och! Ah canna wirk, Barbara." Ere's a shak in her voice. on page 80

2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
nches o flooers atap it yet. 'Barbara MacShuggle (1944 - 2013)'. ' on page 41

1 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
in their Agatha Christies and Barbara Cartlands – marriet wifies
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Lallans 59 - Leids and Lieder: Walcome ti Helvetiscots, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
maire fir their guid counsel. Barbara Traber o orte-Verlag kindlie on page 5

1 matches

Chalmers, Aimee Lallans 59 - Joukene Poukerie, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
Barbara Stewart cam rinnin oot o her
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
s daein. Because God fo,. bid Barbara Clark actually act lik a dece on page 82
handiwork cause half the time Barbara an Iain don't even bother wi on page 169

2 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
in the nineteenth century as Barbara Bell has mindit us aften. Bit on page 37

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
a muckle Iona Fangirl natch; Barbara Dimmock has ae twa VJ sangs s(2020)

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