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The word 'firbye'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
firbyeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.7292
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 133.7 23 1
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
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 1
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 firbye in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
s primer is ey bein updaetit. Firbye dat, da on page 3
ulture. Hoosumivver, language firbye dat is capital an sud be taen on page 9
land an mainland Scotland, an firbye dat wi da Hanseatic League, p on page 10
sheep an goats idda middeens. Firbye dat de'r fun da brucks o lemm on page 13
se colonised Faroe an Iceland firbye, an raided an colonised da Sc on page 15
Also on pages 16, 20, 21, 29, 30, 54, 56, 57, 61, 75, 80, 89, 92, 98, 104
23 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
in - an ither literary forms firbye, o coorse - hae been reclaim on page 33
nae jist an artistic act, bit firbye a political yin: on page 35
c decision, bit it wis aye an firbye political. No in the sense, a on page 36
e. Yit, it maun be recognised firbye that the strength o Scots owr on page 37
ttish scrievin. At that time, firbye, he appintit Stewart Conn Lit on page 38

6 matches

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