A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bidy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bidyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6154
ORK - Orkney
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 bidy in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Wilson, Heidi and Isla Then and noo, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Keith, prose
Nae bidy waatched o’er them in the p
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2012) Doric - Buckie
I hiv a question for a'bidy. Fit dis a'bidy dee? I ask, b
. Fit dis a'bidy dee? I ask, because, fin I le

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Happy Valentine Day a'bidy, here's ma sweetheart - but (2016)
es an loons - happy Easter a'bidy!(2016)
Up an doon Aberdeen a'bidy is saying "Aats an affa fine (2016)
Dinnae fret a'bidy Thor is a mannie again! https(2016)
tps://t.co/hkrl7z2eZk Fit's a'bidy deeing the nicht? https://t.c(2016)
and 6 other occurrences.

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
n expert bit it's funny foo a'bidy hiz their ayn(2019)