A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

babbies Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 5 0 0 0 0 29
Number of occurrences1610 0 0 0 0 6
Number of authors4 2 2

Occurrences of babbies in Corpus

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Central

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
on tae the delite o wee totie babbies in ma ain faimily, baith wean on page 23

2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
t wasna athoot motivation. If babbies wis tae be allooed in, there
e ... Bit Ah’ve brocht mony babbies intae the warl sin syne.” S
ging tae bed wi dugs, an the babbies haes dugs’ heids.”
“Thoo winna catch me haein babbies wi a Dug-man, that’s for si
“Thoo winna catch her haein babbies wi a Dug-man! Ah’m thinkin
8 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
for weemen at ir gan tae hae babbies, an for mithers wi weans at t on page 105

1 matches

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
speirin H2, takkin in weans, babbies, ludgers an collegianers bidi
ers. Mine tae tak in weans an babbies.
akkin in pairtners, weans, an babbies boarn oan or afore 21 Mairch
olumn. Mine tae tak in weans, babbies an fowk wha hae axed fur a Si
faither fur rairin new-boarn babbies
5 matches

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