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The word 'abbie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
abbieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus18.1592
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 492.2 45 1
DOR - General Northern 62.1 14 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 abbie in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
m Webster, an Stan Miller, an Abbie Greig, an onybody else that w on page 107

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
oad at 45. Aabody ca’ed him Abbie, though. We were in the same
weet – poorin o rain – an Abbie’s mither hid said we could
fooers for Lord an Lady Muck (Abbie hid a Rolls Royce Silver Wrai
staan. Bit Ah fairly took tae Abbie’s sister Elsie; she wis aal
walked intae the kitchen, far Abbie an me were playin on the flee
44 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
hief among these sceptics wis Abbie Reid wha, it might be o relev
t is interestin tae note that Abbie considert the failure o the e
here. Suffice it tae say that Abbie wis left somewhit oot o pocke
id at the Bruntland the nicht Abbie Reid made his staggerin accus
ut maybe a spirk o watter hit Abbie, for he roondit on him an sto
14 matches

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