Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'furbye'

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Use in varieties of Scots

furbye	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	1.9	6	3
ORK - Orkney	29.8	3	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	10.9	2	1
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)	31.4	1	1
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 furbye 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
fuel pump and a piston brokk, furbye." on page 41
s black-back hid taen a swipe furbye. on page 56
onkey ~ and a couple o horse, furbye. on page 84

3 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
Furbye aw that, he's ma pal. on page 13

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
Furbye aw that, he’s ma pal.
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
, at onie rate," said Alice: "furbye, thon's naw a regular rule: y on page 118

1 matches