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The word 'bogs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bogsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.61810
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 2
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 bogs in Corpus

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Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
me were oot in the Billister bogs an I lost my left boot and he(2018)

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
nt far aboot the crafty o the Bogs wiz? She wiz busy scrubbin th
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
genstein, yer neibour ower at Bogs o Bourrachie Chairlie the Paw on page 88

1 matches

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
t acause o the drainin o peat bogs. The harmful effects o pestic
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
s tae my flat under the loons bogs at closing time - see ye the (2022) twitter link

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
, "git you tae the Argos peat-bogs and dinna even think aboot co on page 10

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
a minute, then meet me in the bogs, yeah?’
look as we come back fae the bogs the gither. ‘That Guinness
2 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
and. gear. Een the dysarts an bogs wir subject tae Shaggie Heid. on page 14

1 matches

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
re are fowk who are lik' peat bogs. Mammy, on page

7 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
O'er peat bogs deep, screes and scars on page 50

2 matches

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