A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'tibby'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tibbyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.8195
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 39.2 12 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
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 tibby in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ye micht eyn up like yer Unty Tibby - she's a mowser like a byre on page 68

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
e stable fur anither oor yet, Tibby an Prince an Fauldie. Their s
icht aff, fur syne Fauldie an Tibby an Prince strode oot wi virr
hair wis as thick an roch as Tibby's tail. Her jaw wis squar an
cairt that duntit ahin great Tibby's sweeshin tail. An Minnie fo
e say that Jock hid harnessed Tibby tae the gig an wis wytin wi t
11 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
oun the crack i the coortin o Tibby an Jamie, an in Bonny Jean, t on page 141

1 matches

General Central

Thom, Williamina Lallans 75 - Oor Tibby Pagan, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, weans
Oor Tibby Pagan
passed doon fae his Dad. Fae Tibby Pagan, the Lass o Ballachmyle
Noo Tibby wis said no tae be a bonny la
Knowe, it wull aye be ‘Oor Tibby’s Brig’.
4 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
write it. It was gathered off Tibby Pagan at her howff in Muirkir(2020)