A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'toby'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tobyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4114
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 1
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 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 toby in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
fae shü did dat last, afore Toby wis killed. Shü wid nivver f on page 28
ucky shit wis. Shü wis loved Toby dat much an felt nae idder ca on page 29
shü hedd ta do. Shü got oot Toby's big cat box, took aa da pre on page 30

6 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Mair hansom far than Toby jugs -
1 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
Acroas a connul lit table et Toby Lerone’s A couple whisperâ€
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
e rods an we hud a spin wae a Toby, an him an Da wheeched oot th
er gote a take, reelin in ees Toby, an ye could see the end o th
the same spot an wheeched the Toby oot again an again but ther w
3 matches

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