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Use in varieties of Scots

humbug Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1.5 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences53 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of humbug in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
aboot bein such a moody auld humbug so when ah gied ma sister her on page 42

1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
uld be made aware o this. Bah humbug(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
see ur in a good mood - bah humbug - mona burra lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

The Flying Pigs The ‘Naked Cleaners’ idea is appalling. It’s sexist, demeaning, and at £80 an hour, steep, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
eer made her look like a mint humbug. But fan she seen that the co
1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
harlequin, humbug ba. A game, on page 3

1 matches

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