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The word 'neebur'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
neeburOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6157
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 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 neebur in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
e fence." This the lady o the neebur hoose informed me wan day whi on page 13

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The day the neebur lass cam ower tae play and wi on page 128

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
Lord Duntinny, yer brither's neebur, an we aa heard the terrible on page 17

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - The Cricket An The Eemock, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, poetry
Awa she rins tae neebur Ant,
1 matches

General Northern

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ome that we got. Clelia got a neebur fa spoke English, bit she wis on page 29

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
ot the letter Alf Burnett, mi neebur, cried in by. He wis a self-e on page 8

1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Mindin on Willie McIlvanney, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Bellshill, blog
l ony better or waur than his neebur, except bi his deeds - an th
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
The neebur's cat wis scratchin' et ma do
idden flair They set aboot ma neebur's door
2 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
e road. I skelped through the neebur's sprinkler twa-three times, on page 27

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
cause I wantit tae be a guid neebur, as weel as a guid faither." on page 77
"But she's Olaf's neebur as weel," Violet replied, "an on page 80

2 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
e polis chappin the next door neebur's door. Heard the polis sayin (2021) twitter link
Jings . . . ma neebur fae across the road has jist (2021) twitter link

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