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The word 'bobbie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bobbieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.5183
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 98.4 9 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 74.9 6 1
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 bobbie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
got catched en thi en fae thi bobbie's an fyn't on page 30
th, afoar onneybudce font thi bobbie's. So aifter aat a kint foo e on page 64
nna er wheel's, bit offin thi bobbie's wid coup er baak ower fur y on page 65

3 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
wman's hoose?' says the aaler bobbie. on page 79
Noo it was that the younger bobbie, fa haed sat like a stookie o on page 80
tae mak o this"?' speirs the bobbie. on page 81

8 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
‘Fan a bobbie cam roon tae see me the day a
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
The umwhile Bobbie Tamson o the Snoot, the laist
Nellie whan he wis ae laddie. Bobbie wis ae
shawit mei ae sowderin job at Bobbie hed daen fur him, on ane o hi
Bobbie’s weedae flittit intil the
ca’d Geordie, Bobbie an Margaret. Bobbie an mei wu
6 matches

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