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The word 'embdy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
embdyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5158
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
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 40.2 8 5
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of embdy in Corpus

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West Central

Mortimer, Cara Bewaur o th tap tap tap, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
huck ma can o ginger an skelp embdy wha wis er…
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
o she widdae asked jist aboot embdy fir help: so, when the Rabbit on page 18
at croquet, it's hardly worth embdy else's while playin." on page 83

2 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
me psycho (didnae wantae wake embdy wi the microwave) I feel wi a on page 3

1 matches

McCrory, Pat Lallans 56 - Embdy Lost a Jaickit?, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central - Cowcaddens, poetry
Embdy Lost a Jaickit? on page 113

2 matches

McCrory, Pat Lallans 56 - The Tale ae a Worm, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central - Cowcaddens, poetry
He'd say, "Embdy want tae see ma annelid?" on page 114

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
try. They have these classes, embdy can go, so ….'
1 matches

@johnstone_shane tweeted
Embdy ever yaise thi wurd "cate" or (2020) twitter link

General Central

@raiphsays tweeted
@HippyRockChick A dinnae tel embdy!(2020)
@trangpang Naebdy trusts embdy!(2020)
g No you wurry! A widnae tell embdy! Poor wee hing..(2020)
mibbe ye cud peel it aff afor embdy see it?(2020)

@LowEndJardo tweeted
Embdy got a dial a booze number but (2021) twitter link
ttin an italy tap aff dhgate, embdy want one? (2021) twitter link