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The word 'bither'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bitherOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6126
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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) 71.4 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bither in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
les, an Higgie's gey aald tae bither noo. on page 95

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
anuforti1968 Willie Kemp? Nae bither loon.(2019)
undr. But we got into an affa bither as another app soonded affa s(2019)
n Cheers loon. Distince nae a bither.(2019)
ti ken aboot yin ayePad. Nae bither. Wint ti ken aboot yon Androi(2019)
@cligeey @shunad Ooocha. Nae bither. Startin' i'morn(2020)

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
day! Niver changes!!! I dinna bither asking fit the soup o’the da(2018)

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
Bither. on page 155

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
An dinna bither visitin me. on page 35

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
hoose o a freen. A wus haein bither getting a thaing daen, an thi on page 29

2 matches

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