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The word 'boozer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boozerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.53711
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 44.3 10 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 40.9 16 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 32.6 6 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 boozer in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
True story for a laugh...oor boozer is fur the hard n hearty...wa (2021) twitter link

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I'M A BOOZER on page 90

9 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
@thedecor85 Get doon the boozer we yer winfa.(2020)

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
got thegither in the nearest boozer ae lowsin time. Aabody said t on page 86
me on, we'll awa doun tae the boozer afore we split up!" on page 90

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
awed Paul who ah kent fae the boozer hud jumped oantae a till. He on page 31
rstandin wae that boay at the boozer. Naeboady fae Leith is daft e on page 35
quid voucher fae Argos. This boozer is the sortae place yae widna on page 67
ompetition. Everyboady in the boozer stoaps what their dain tae ad on page 79
cious point ae gittin tae the boozer before everyboady else. Darte on page 98
Also on pages 99, 103, 105, 108, 112, 181, 182
13 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
n oaff license. Or some cheap boozer somehow constitutes luxury. I
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
hances. She ran a pretty fine boozer aw the same, but mebbe seein on page 100
l, tho it kept on bein a fine boozer (it still is) it wis never qu on page 102

2 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
in away. A'm walkin by an eld boozer wae ma hood up. It's yir typi on page 38

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ght when ah goat hame fae the boozer efter watchin the gemme. Ah l
1 matches

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
maybe ah’d even gie up the boozer fur hur. Ah’d love every se
haun oan the way hame fae the boozer. Hur eyes watered in the yell
ws hus put a sign outside his boozer: “Sturgeon the Pint Snatche
3 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
“Even durin the Blitz, the boozer wis open.”
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
Bit she's doon the boozer wi her mates the night. She's on page 45

1 matches

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 3, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
yer time in a bookie's ur a boozer's ye widnae know the inside a
1 matches

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