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The word 'upbiggin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
upbigginOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3146
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 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 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 3
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 upbiggin in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - The Three Hooses, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, weans
im that bade in it wis thrang upbiggin, slatin an pyntin the bitties
that ilk - tae help wi thair upbiggin wark; sae a curn academics, a
at nae siller wad be nott for upbiggin the Laich Hoose - whit wi na
3 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
ultural policy in uphaudin an upbiggin Gaelic, Scots an the minority
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
ar, the Scots Leid Associe is upbiggin its annual Scots writin
1 matches

Edinburgh

Sneddon, Duncan Lallans 83 - Biggin Brigs – Nummer 3: Cornish, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
ne thing that has hirpled the upbiggin o Cornish, baith as a languag on page 107

1 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - review, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
whit heild Scotland back frae upbiggin a theatre o its ain at whan w on page 109

2 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 74 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
, Google hauds an ee tae’t, upbiggin a database o intentions that
ane ten year Google haes been upbiggin its empire by eikin services
2 matches

Sneddon, Alison Whit dae ye want “British vailues” tae mean?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
e leadership in international upbiggin. It’s no a subjeck that low
y an security. Internaitional upbiggin is as muckle in oor ain inter
resent mair nor hauf o global upbiggin assistance, an EU institution
ironment whaur internaitional upbiggin initiatives can bear the gree
4 matches

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