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Use in varieties of Scots

babby Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8 11.6 0 0 0 31 0
Number of occurrences2623 0 0 0 3 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of babby in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
"Hou daes a babby crocodile on page 18
tuil in the middle, nursing a babby: the cook wis leanin ower the on page 44

11 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
t puir Isabel's state - wi a babby in her airms, an a frichit we on page 46
unny faces, an croonin awa in babby sang as they whuspert their l on page 71

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
An noo ma fair wee babby
Thou noo ye're no a babby
Thou ye greet jist like a babby
3 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e’en though she wis juist a babby whan she wis brocht intae the
ons on human faces, wi shinin babby een.
ome o thaim. Bit if she has a babby boy, an he dees, for whitever
the muntains, bit Ah lost the babby. Ah wis never able tae hae na
the Dugwumman wis expectin a babby, the Dug-people had cleart th
6 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ttle mair sense than a sookin babby. He kens sun frae moon, cock
1 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
the nichts. Nae me, sleep lik babby! ???? https://t.co/EMcNZEOMmB(2020) search twitter
o time flew! That year, a was babby!(2020) search twitter
dummy up his erse! Dinnae be babby!(2020) search twitter