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The word 'nighbers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nighbersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4114
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 127.2 7 1

Occurrences of nighbers in Corpus

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Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
An then, quait-crakkin nighbers, they'd on page 19

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Frae tha coorse taak o tha nighbers on page 14
Am feert tha nighbers micht fin oot - on page 42

2 matches

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
wairm tha day as ah chek tha nighbers! ?????? https://t.co/MdTYEwcu (2021) twitter link

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
bin til hir, an hir freens an nighbers wus aa wile plaised. Whan tha on page 71
irt. Sae the' waved tae thair nighbers ïn tha ither boat tae cum an on page 77
s, yer femlie or yer weel-aff nighbers, acause the' wull onlie pye y on page 95
caas thegither hïs freens an nighbers an says tae thaim, 'Cum on an on page 96
, yer brithers, yer freens an nighbers. An sum o yis wull be kïllt. on page 105

7 matches

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