| backie | Occurrences normalised per million words | Occurrences | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Corpus | 6.9 | 23 | 12 |
| ORK - Orkney | |||
| SHD - Shetland | |||
| TON - Tonge | |||
| NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) | |||
| NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle) | |||
| MNA - Mid Northern A | 26.2 | 8 | 4 |
| MNB - Mid Northern B | |||
| SNO - South Northern | |||
| ABN - Aberdeen | 73.4 | 7 | 3 |
| DOR - General Northern | 31 | 7 | 4 |
| NEC - North East Central | |||
| SEC - (South) East Central | |||
| WCE - West Central | |||
| DUN - Dundee | |||
| EDN - Edinburgh | |||
| GLA - Glasgow | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| 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) |
Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
lapsed, the gear shed oot the backie got brunt tae the grun wi aa
1 matches
Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
€™d heard a commotion oot the backie and Catty myowin in agony. Sh
they’d been sittin oot the backie enjoyin a quiet drink fin som
2 matches
Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
birdies wad gaither roon her backie in the foreneen wytin fur a b
ddle wisna tae be seen at yer backie. She’d hytered ower a rug i
2 matches
@DoricPhrases tweeted
FaÂ’s fur a backie? http://t.co/CrDoN7yVyc(2014)
@FaeFoggie tweeted
ful. Looks like a photie o ma backie ??(2019)
Lawrie, Alistair Northwords Now 45 - The Win, (Northwords Now 2024) Doric - Peterhead, prose
bit winda an the door tae the backie. It wis o cheap hardboard wi
imself oot intae the win. The backie stretched the lenth o the hoo
tin for the waa, that ootside backie waa that feart him as a bairn
3 matches
Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
. They’d come roon intae ma backie for a yap so I could see ye..
1 matches
Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
e the helicopter doon into my backie. An Officer starts descending
as broken apart – across ma backie, there’s clythes, burst pil
2 matches
Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
r if ye wis lucky, out in the backie agin the wa if ye wisnae. Bit
1 matches
@sovereigndaisy tweeted
@CMonaghanSNP Gies a backie ??(2019)
@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
v now ‘is wikend or we still backie scoofin’? #(2020)