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The word 'sobs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sobsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9136
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 140.7 4 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 20.1 4 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 sobs in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ak, but, for a meenad or two, sobs chocked his voice. "Same as i on page 95
_ voice sometimes chocked wi sobs, till sing iss: on page 102
e air, mixed up wi e distant sobs o e miserable Mock Turtle. on page 120

4 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e wee, embroidered hunkie, ma sobs subsidin as ma fingirs close on page 80
hans an grat - great heavin sobs aat cam fae somewye deep insi on page 95

2 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
elt like the vibrations o yer sobs on page 51

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ak, bit, fir a meenit or twa, sobs choked his voice. "Same zif h on page 97
a voice sometimes choked wae sobs, tae sing: on page 105
air, mixed up wae the distant sobs ae the miserable Mock Turtle. on page 122
ce ae the Mock Turtle's heavy sobs. on page 123

4 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
ma face, ma body racked wi’ sobs. Kim Newlands kent there wis
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
e air, mixt up wi the distant sobs o the miserable Mock Turtle. on page 124

1 matches

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