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The word 'babe'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
babeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2149
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 17.1 7 4
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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 babe 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

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
A garter, which a babe had strangled;
A gairter, which a babe haed strangled;
2 matches

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
d frae them like candy frae a babe's haun as they grow aulder, t
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
min as 'doll', 'sweetheart', 'babe' or 'sugar'. They easily fa i
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
likes - laddie seems tae b a babe magnet lol (2020) twitter link
8 @ShaunMcC4llion an absolute babe magnet btw (2021) twitter link
a said - hey babe take a walk on the wildside - (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e DUFFY IS A HUNNY DUFFY IS A BABE CHAZZA AN DUFFYCHARLENE BROON on page 169

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
step taewards us but the wee babe fires the taser at him. It la on page 176

1 matches

Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
oot. ‘Did you get my text, babe,’ she shouts.
. I’m not going out anymore babe so I thought we could have a
2 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
arld, the bride, the sun, the babe on page 6

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
stars round her crown and the babe in her airms. The Archbishop' on page 3

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ntellect post menopause Fifer babe that is @valmcdermid (#NaeAFi(2020)

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