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The word 'bab'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
babOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1134
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 530 6 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 164.2 5 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bab in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ed, hinkid ithe sheets like a bab or a corp, sleepan yet whan s on page 101

1 matches

General Central

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
79 @star_welsh Get it doon ye bab! Yall feel better yao know! G (2022) twitter link

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
It iver Bab on page 12

4 matches

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
pin an squaverin, he come aff Bab’s hokin doag a snite wae th
n bay cut ooty the broo behin Bab’s hoose (stannin yit, mair
2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Oul bittér Bab - there's nane sae soor, on page 43
Whun tae yer face, Bab's nice eneuch, on page 44

5 matches

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