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The word 'ebb'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ebbOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.92922
ORK - Orkney 159 16 10
SHD - Shetland 46.5 8 7
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ebb in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gallows Ha - The Weather Dance, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
I heard the ebb and flow o idle chatter, on page 28

1 matches

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
ran spoots and limpets in the ebb. on page 42

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
fter tea tae git doon tae the ebb on page 65

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Ebb o The Riv, Lurno o The Soond, on page 11

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The Snozack spurled aming the ebb on page 84
gentle slap o the ebb tide on page 149
I heard the ebb and flow o idle chatter on page 154

3 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Shags at the Ebb on page 136

1 matches

Brown, Moyra Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
for cockles in the Pierowall ebb. on page 29

1 matches

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
The tide will ebb afore shae’ll can tae go
1 matches

Flett, Alison Harbour, (Scottish Poetry Library 2004) Orkney, poetry
thi ebb an flo
1 matches

Cowan, Fiona A Boreas domus mare amicus?, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney - Finstown, poetry
Nee more bruck fae the ebb
1 matches

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
the banks an than doon in the ebb wae a gully or sumin o' that
back like ony man doon in the ebb, an wak awa wae hid ower the
ak awa wae hid ower the slidy ebb steens an rocks, an than ower
3 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
@George_NRBO A half 'oor o ebb and the steamer will work gra(2020)

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
Ida ebb dey're ready wartin - is du on page 101

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Little Pony at Sarah fan i da ebb. He wis a special favourite, on page 25

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
moorit - dere, ithin da ebb-stanes, on page 33

1 matches

Tait, Christian Da Hegri, (Shetland For Wirds 2001) Shetland, poetry
it for as lang as it taks ida ebb
1 matches

De Luca, Christine Love in a Caald Climate, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, poetry
da tang he tör fae da ebb
1 matches

Sinclair, James Murmansk, (Scottish Poetry Library 2019) Shetland, poetry
n fur da tide ta turn, fur da ebb ta come,
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Da big ebb danight and current events br(2020)

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
y “dey’d geen tae da limpet ebb”, in reference to a poor fam(2018)

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
bit fan the ebb draiged it hine oot, an left on page 39

1 matches

General Central

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
are baith ebb an wind on page 17

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Canny in the ebb o life, wi sparkie ee on page 4

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
Ah leuked oot across the ebb toward the pencil-shapit Chai
1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
product bes aa sichin a laigh ebb o' forderin hit's important a on page 66

1 matches

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