A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

backies Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 2 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences54 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of backies in Corpus

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Central

Kirk Jn, Albert Feydom, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
(backies oot, nae tae-bashers)
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
wa at the shore inaboots the backies, ither fowks gairdens. Efter (2020) search twitter

@billykayscot tweeted
ion. Jist dinnae heid oot the backies o Wormit, an tell yer wife, Â(2020) search twitter
polis for dealin them in the Backies ahint Wormit!(2020) search twitter

Doric

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - A hame is a hame is a hame, is it nae?, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
fae Mastrick backies an the braes o Hatton - on page 33

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