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The word 'babbies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
babbiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3143
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
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 50.1 8 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
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) 109 6 2

Occurrences of babbies in Corpus

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Edinburgh

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

Synthetic (no region)

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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