A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bb'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bbOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 3
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 bb in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
the loun muivit up intil the BB Company. The'r aa kinna Scots on page 123

1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
an endit up wi a BB gun on page 50

1 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
BrianBengal @daviebroon51 See BB... You're just encouraging hi (2023) twitter link
@BrianBengal Get yer feet up BB, and relax yersel'.. Ye get d (2023) twitter link
standing there getting soaked BB... Move tae the side a bit... (2023) twitter link
flittin' through tae Glasgow BB.. ?? (2023) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
e watch this unless its Celeb BB. An even thats testin fir me (2015)

@changed_days tweeted
He's nae Ryan Jack, calm doon BB ???? (2021) twitter link