A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

boa Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.8 8.5 3.2 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1816 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 3 2

Occurrences of boa in Corpus

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Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
inforest. It wis a pictur o a boa constrictor wiacraitur in its on page 9
Syne I drew the innarts o th boa constrictor, sae the growen-u on page 10
dna speak tae yon chiel anent boa constrictors, or rainforests, on page 11
I coud dae. The pictur o the boa constrictor ootby. An I wis s on page 12
e attemps forby the twa o the boa constrictor inby an ootby at on page 20
Also on pages 82
11 matches

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
us had a lang bleck and yella boa constrictor that grupped and on page 51
igh up above the grund by the boa constrictor tail. The snake w on page 56

2 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
onnae go doon the shoap for a boa’le o Chardonnay.’ Apairt
the Central ‘shoap’ an ‘boa’le’ as ‘Glesca’) sicc
words like ‘shoap’ an ‘boa’le’ as a characteristic S
3 matches

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
like a feather boa windin itsel aroon on page 44

1 matches

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