A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'backies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
backiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.554
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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 backies in Corpus

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General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - A hame is a hame is a hame, is it nae?, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
fae Mastrick backies an the braes o Hatton - on page 33

1 matches

West Central

Kirk Jn, Albert Feydom, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
(backies oot, nae tae-bashers)
1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
wa at the shore inaboots the backies, ither fowks gairdens. Efter (2020)

@billykayscot tweeted
ion. Jist dinnae heid oot the backies o Wormit, an tell yer wife, Â(2020)
polis for dealin them in the Backies ahint Wormit!(2020)