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The word 'bouks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bouksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.583
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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 27.1 5 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
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 bouks in Corpus

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Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
wi thair wee douce oosie bouks an keen wee gizzes on page 7
Crawlin lichen kivvers thair bouks on page 11
exowstin thair bouks as weel as thair minds on page 13
wha've loss control o thair bouks on page 31
in thair actions wi thair ain bouks an claes, on page 37

5 matches

General Central

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
tho heids frae bouks wis sindert, see, aa their ha on page 31

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
that life is the jynin o bouks. on page 21

2 matches

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