A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

boyfriend Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words11 17.5 1.6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences3433 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors8 7 1

Occurrences of boyfriend 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.

Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2003 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
lassie, her wee ratty-lookin boyfriend on page 5
r tap. 'Senile auld cow.' Her boyfriend is still joost sittin there, on page 8
ye, him. The smarmy cunt. Mah boyfriend says he skelped the back ae m on page 20

4 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"She caught her boyfriend gone doon oan someboady. Her on page 32
lassie above yae. Ah hink her boyfriend is batterin her again. He's a on page 145

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
cause she said ah knocked her boyfriend but ah never; aw ah did wis d on page 30
the ring ah goat aff ma maw's boyfriend, she said, Sa big gold fucker on page 42
Charlene's ma's boyfriend disnae work either but he's n on page 53
egnant. An she's no even gota boyfriend. Ma Auntie Jackie phoned tae on page 58
Charlene's got a new boyfriend. His name's Wully McCoy an he on page 60
Also on pages 110, 114, 121, 129, 148, 153, 155, 156, 169
18 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
'Is that yer boyfriend?' a voice says efter regi whe on page 19
tae brush aff hoo anxious the boyfriend comment is makin me feel. Is on page 20

2 matches

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
ae accent). Excuse me, but my boyfriend Zander's lasagne is stone col on page 4

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
wis, and Leanne's oan-and-aff boyfriend, Ian. on page 7
'So it wis fine fur Leanne's boyfriend Ian tae hide his baggies in L on page 61
'Soon. My boyfriend booked us a holiday to LA. So on page 88

3 matches

Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
y an said if ah went near her boyfriend again then she’d get her bi
1 matches

Lamb, Darcie T in the Park, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Kirkcaldy, prose
e the bus. Me, ma Maw and her boyfriend, Ryan, wur aw gaun. A wis pur
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
urt because i called ma wifes boyfriend a retard for drinking while o(2020) search twitter

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Tae ma dother’s boyfriend: ye had a richt guid quine ai(2018) search twitter