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The word 'babby'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
babbyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.1275
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 12.9 5 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 37.2 6 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 138.8 13 1
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 36.3 3 1
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 babby in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
limpets Mistress and the wee babby crabs." on page 1

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
An noo ma fair wee babby
Thou noo ye're no a babby
Thou ye greet jist like a babby
3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ttle mair sense than a sookin babby. He kens sun frae moon, cock
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e’en though she wis juist a babby whan she wis brocht intae the
ons on human faces, wi shinin babby een.
ome o thaim. Bit if she has a babby boy, an he dees, for whitever
the muntains, bit Ah lost the babby. Ah wis never able tae hae na
the Dugwumman wis expectin a babby, the Dug-people had cleart th
6 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
"Hou daes a babby crocodile on page 18
tuil in the middle, nursing a babby: the cook wis leanin ower the on page 44

11 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
t puir Isabel's state - wi a babby in her airms, an a frichit we on page 46
unny faces, an croonin awa in babby sang as they whuspert their l on page 71

2 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
the nichts. Nae me, sleep lik babby! ???? https://t.co/EMcNZEOMmB(2020)
o time flew! That year, a was babby!(2020)
dummy up his erse! Dinnae be babby!(2020)