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The word 'outby'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
outbyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6206
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 33.5 13 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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 outby in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
Naebodie on the rod outby. on page 124

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
unkert at his ease, While far outby his ken, Jowd in the jummle o (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
, deif cuddie. His furst keik outby wes frae a gowk's nest an the
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
houss outby Howgate. Rab Broun wes a plat
unnie hed fluidit frae a pype outby i
sconveniences o the hask warl outby.
wittins o the outby warl, an wuidna tak onie sill
the kerr, at wes aye staunnin outby on the
12 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
na bruilyiement at the strete outby wes croudit wi clapperdins on on page 6

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
un, onshakkilt an be-in ledit outby intil the stourie sunnschein on page 2

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
he wair-tid redd’ an joukit outby the houss wiout evin bydin ti
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
s o boa constrictors, inby an outby, an tae pit my mind insteid t on page 10

1 matches

Goodbrand Saunders, Donald Lallans 67 - Twa Owresettins frae Heine, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
They're outby the city gates. on page 55

1 matches

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