A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dabbit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dabbitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.863
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 dabbit in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
l he wis wabbit he scrapit an dabbit on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
th gied a wee, ticht smile an dabbit it the neuks o her moo wi her on page 30
oot his hunkie an dichtit an dabbit it the spullt champagne on hi on page 60
flooery-smellin perfume. She dabbit it on ma neck an ahin ma lugs on page 65
nd fiddle to a stallion." She dabbit her een wi a hunkie. "And hal on page 76

4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
nny Bruce tuik oot a hanky an dabbit her een, an the Aunts
1 matches

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