A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

boiler Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1 0 19.9 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences62 0 2 1 0 1
Number of authors6 2 2 1 1

Occurrences of boiler in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
s' worth n a big juicy copper boiler. There's always the. sound ae on page 3

1 matches

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
as fast as oor buggerin auld boiler would rattle. on page 50

1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
And then sheu strips me boiler-suit tae pit hid in the wash. on page 39

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. New Lambs, Owld Stone, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
. Joni Mitchell on the radio. Boiler suits laggered in … best no
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
r triggit up too, aye a clean boiler suit every day. He seemed tae on page 38

1 matches

Ulster

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
ok tae dry their claes in the boiler-hoose afore they wur captered
1 matches

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