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The word 'mibee'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mibeeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9166
ORK - Orkney 119.2 12 4
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 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 mibee in Corpus

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Orkney

Sclater, Kathryn Gallows Ha - Five Signs, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
a fine man and mibee a few bairns? on page 15

1 matches

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
the hammer that upset him. Or mibee id wis me grootan aboot on me on page 21

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
or mibee on page 88

5 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
. Hid saems gei affens, haer, mibee apees, tae be aboot beelongan
“ould”, onee o whit A’d mibee itherweis komfirtablee yeus a
ds teu. Speleens (an sicweis, mibee, pronunseeaeshins teu) o the
s noo, sweechis an a. This is mibee the most acsesibl aproch, an
in aboot hid that mukl – an mibee insteed o findan beelongan in
5 matches

Shetland

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
“Yis, yis, I ken, but mibee he stopped fir a sheeks we so
eing da scarfs an tysties, an mibee draan a piltock or twa on da
2 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@FinHall Mibee next batch(2020)
@MSPAberdeen Mibee there is nae soap in the hoos(2020)