A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bouncing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bouncingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.655
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 bouncing 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.

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
on the fleer an his gun went bouncing aff an in comes the quine an (2018)

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs Multiple choice voting leaves city cooncil facing, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
iet lately, but there he wiz, bouncing aboot and daein funny voices
1 matches

General Northern

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
e corridor I hi'd butterfleas bouncing ah ower ma belly the same but
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@Ali_Leith @Manuforti1968 Ken bouncing aboot ma scull noo??(2020)

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'Right,' Paco says, bouncing up an doon oan the spot. 'Let on page 31

1 matches

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