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The word 'bie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.2173
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 52.3 9 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.7 7 1
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 bie in Corpus

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Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
Quhit mann bie, mann bie. on page 14
Maain Hy bie da Sie on page 18
I saal bie da bunghsie, dat noabil skjoo on page 20

6 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Lallans 58 - Eicht poems bi Robert Alan Jamieson, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
Hit mann bie a tekkil on page 27

2 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Metadist Metafir, (Shetland For Wirds 2007) Shetland, poetry
Hit mann bie a tekkil
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
faun she wis i the faimly wye bie Haily Speerit. Noo Joseph, na on page 7

1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
e bummin lik ane angirt fozie-bie. The bizzin incressit ontil,
“The Reverant Sawnie Bie, aince meinister o Kittilskar
Bie. Hiz guidwyfe brocht him ti t
ow allye. The Reverent Sawnie Bie hard o the ploy ti
Rosie, an the Reverant Sawnie Bie. Than thai sent
7 matches

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