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The word 'nisbet'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nisbetOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.5217
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 25.4 10 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 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 nisbet in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
tend nae tae be available. Eg Nisbet at Hibs, nae available even a (2021) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
Nisbet tap on ??/?? Fergie still got(2020)

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
Nisbet, ye’l mibbies get a horss,
Lukkie Nisbet hed deil belikkit stang, tho.
Nisbet ivverie parteiklaritie o hir
nem o Lukkie Nisbet wes aye a siccar soverance. A
an broth, fur lik Maistres Nisbet, the Border fowk hed a grenei
9 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
te, an the costumes bi Monika Nisbet, particular thaim o the weemi
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
her mount at the feet o John Nisbet o Hardhill wha dispatched the on page 37
nerstaun. Her ain uncle, John Nisbet - wha had focht wi John Brou on page 65

2 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
mes fae the screivings o John Nisbet. On the nicht o Sunday 1st th
hink wis a clessic UFO. Jeems Nisbet o Hardhill, an his son the sa
ill, an his son the said John Nisbet, wi twa-three ithers wis stru
abuin wis syne eikit til whan Nisbet wrate a bittie mair anent his
Whit Nisbet descrives here, in baith vers
6 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
(1 Corinthians 14:11, Murdoch Nisbet’s Scots New Testament, c. 1
1 matches

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