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The word 'billie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
billieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.44314
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 35.6 3 1
DOR - General Northern 84.2 19 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 3
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) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of billie in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
there ca'ed Zacchaeus, e heid billie o e tax-mannies, gey weel aff on page 111
e, cause ye're a stern kine o billie, ye tak oot fit ye didna pit on page 112

3 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 90 - The Trump, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, poetry
'Na, na,' says the billie. 'Ye've gat it aa wrang. on page 34

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
e haed been eest by a sleekit billie weel-akwant wi the art o takk on page 30

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
ago, daes es young precentor billie nae lat it be kent that in a on page 25

1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Enter Bit-part Billie. Ee hiz heavy footsteps. on page 40

16 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
heez airms tae frichten the Billie-gait awa, afore allooin iz ta
“Ay. Yon Billie-gait gaed iz a tummel doon th
2 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
Blunket o e' Grun - Billie jo Spears #changeasongtitleti(2019)

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
nds, we hae a skeillie boffin-billie (or aiblins twa) up oor sleev
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
the twene’s billie at bene sicna kemp o Scotland
ti recognosce at thair auld billie wes deid, an thai grat. Mirre
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
back abuird the ship wi three billie-cans o reekin het tea in his
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
itwat howff. Mukkil companie, billie?" on page 3

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
he Wattir Mouss, lik the guid billie at he wes, skilled on stiddie
1 matches

General Central

DaibhidC Moa an the tynt sun, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
ae the door on the horn o the billie-gait, fillt his cassies, an l
art, she telt hersel, A hae a billie-gait an a trow.
ht an luekit frae her tae the billie-gait. "Aye. Aye, A am."
a saw the trow sleepin an the billie-gait staundin forefaren. The
4 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ckett. Samuel. Thon play with Billie Whitelaw or the Born Astride (2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
u Should See Me in a Crown by Billie Eilish. Ah discover lots o mu(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
'Ach Billie Rab!" quo Frank wi glee, 'wha on page 4
Michelle, guid billie, on page 25

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Billie boys. on page 59
Wi oor Hill Billie generation on page 60

2 matches

General Ulster

Robinson, Philip , (Facebook 2021) Ulster, prose
makkin tha tay. He had aa tha billie-cans hung frae a bar across t
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
Freen or billie o a bodie in tha hoosehaud
1 matches

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