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The word 'mibbies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mibbiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.3219
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 15.5 6 1
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 7
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 mibbies in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
“Thon’s as mibbies. A maun ti Embro, whaur we mi
Nisbet, ye’l mibbies get a horss, or mibbies shae
get a horss, or mibbies shae’l set the
Mibbies John wuid ken. He priggit at
luk wi’d. Wha kens, the’r mibbies a fyow rissoms o guid i
6 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 81 - Annie and the New Chairs, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
yan ti be freinly ti the man. Mibbies ye sud try it. Micht get a fe
‘Mibbies yer legs hae shrunk.’
2 matches

Hardie, George Lallans 76 - Tammy an the Cheese Plant, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
“Mibbies Ah cud refresh yer memory,”
“Aye, mibbies ye cud.”
2 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
chynged hauns wi sicna virr, mibbies it bene a guid deskreivin ti on page 6

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
The Pechts wes mibbies a derf fowk, feirt o nane an on page 42

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
e sei whitlik mote be huls ir mibbies arna, an sumthin lik the reik
1 matches

General Central

Love, Rowena M. Lallans 82 - Simmer Strand, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
that ripples wi mibbies. on page 42

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
p tae my knees, an ane o them mibbies deid for aye. Yon disna mak m on page 66

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
r wis ower thirty fit deep wi mibbies ten fit o platchie saund an c on page 59

1 matches

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ng fur monie o thaim, an they mibbies dinna unnerstaun whit modren
n frae oor cultural historie. Mibbies o coorse that’s whit they m
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
r haes been a strikin, though mibbies nae langer supreisin, sicht t
1 matches

Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
s it seemed by fowk votin Na. Mibbies gin fowk felt confident wi th
1 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
Mibbies it's the whisky talking, but (2018)

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