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The word 'corbies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
corbiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62117
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 52.4 4 1
LAL - General Central 8 6 6
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of corbies in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Lupins, corbies, the hills o Hoy - on page 26

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
hing at shö could mind aboot corbies an writin-desks, an dat wisna on page 70

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
you happen to notice a gang o corbies arrive fae my direction today(2020)

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
t een up. Nivver heard o "twa corbies" ??(2018)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
A richt ill-setten twasome o corbies on page 28

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
re pit awa somewhaur even the corbies cannae cack their keech on ye on page 157

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
latit bi his readin o The Twa Corbies. A leddie, wha is jyned thema on page 137

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 83 - Phantasmagoria, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Ay hearin ma ruifers, the corbies, on page 71

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
o life onywhaur wis a flock o corbies branglin on tap o the compost
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
k ae everythin she knew aboot corbies an writin-desks, which wisnae on page 68

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
ocht aboot aa she kennt aboot corbies an screivindesks, an that wis on page 44

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
- an Adam fand it afore the corbies an the mawks - he wad skin i on page 56
er. The laddies caad it their corbies' nest. on page 73
a real craw's nest, the young corbies flew their ain nest at Cruike on page 75

3 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
corbies caw, stairms blaw on page 42

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
e're aa grave-birds - craws, corbies! on page 25

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
mbed aaready. He had seen the corbies pickin the een oot a wee corp on page 17

1 matches

McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
jined in wi him, crawin like corbies. on page 68

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 73 - Guest, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
The corbies sappit bluidy kills on page 61

1 matches

@fourmenterian tweeted
@seanair_iain Twa corbies = deux corbeaux!(2014)

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Amang thaim aa dour Corbies blak, tae face tha pew. on page 21

1 matches

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