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The word 'bai'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
baiOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.4184
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 49.6 8 1
GLA - Glasgow 40.2 8 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)

Occurrences of bai in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
In fact, the more that bai deus wrong, the more ah'm thi on page 15

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
A that bai, A’m met fok teu wha dinnae
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ill guessed. Twins, Wu-Yun an Bai-Yun. The engineer spake tae B
tae dae Bill’s biddin, bit Bai-Yun cam ower an fund wastren
r’s ‘wark’?” demandit Bai-Yun.
“That’s an rw enclave!” Bai-Yun exclaimt. He turnt tae Wu
ll ne’er git back there,” Bai-Yun telt him.
8 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
Frae Li Bai on page 20
Frae Bai Fuyt on page 21
Frae Bai Fuyt on page 24
Frae Bai Fuyi on page 25
Frae Bai Fuyi on page 27
Also on pages 28, 31, 33
8 matches

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