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The word 'sabbin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sabbinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3105
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
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 32 3 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 94.2 3 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 sabbin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
helpit tae clear the system. Sabbin fit tae brak yer hairt. she t
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
e air and crashing intae her. Sabbin in terror Jeemicky lifted his
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
n, an the on-an-on greitin an sabbin o the Mock Turtle. Alison wis on page 44

2 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
yce cried for Adam Beg. Bess, sabbin her hert oot, clung tae him. on page 52

1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
sabbin mair saut nor whit's aboot me on page 45

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Brocht deil an answer sabbin on the blaw. on page 25

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
ava. "But maybae it wus only sabbin," shae thocht, an tuk anither on page 61
phon, an the continuous heavy sabbin o the Mock Turtle. Alice wus on page 94

3 matches

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