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Use in varieties of Scots

booked Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10 8.2 12.1 9.9 34.9 0 4.4
Number of occurrences3216 8 1 6 0 1
Number of authors21 10 7 1 2 1

Occurrences of booked 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

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
e times when there wis a band booked for the pub. She rarely staye on page 77

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Aldo, Dougie. He hud the boay booked intae the dentist before the on page 34

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
hauf an oor man an we'd jist booked a lane, said Duffy, An then w on page 169

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
'Soon. My boyfriend booked us a holiday to LA. So at lea on page 88

1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
missionary work in Aberdeen. Booked a fancy barbers for a haircut(2020) search twitter

@g_hibby tweeted
a fabulous one day adventure booked.. Bungy jumping intae the Ama (2023) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
ics fir me last nicht....even booked fir following week tae, no pa(2015) search twitter

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
yers33 Naw...we wid never get booked again. ?? it was a career kil(2020) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
h think this chappie must hae booked intae Carstairs.(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
6Douglass @ShepDep26 am fully booked fir the friendlies guys n am (2020) twitter link
ficial cmon lads get westside booked in - b a guid test for yous (2021) twitter link
will b considered as am fooly booked efter that (2020) twitter link
bingo - 6 games r booked in at an undisclosed location (2020) twitter link
ollercoaster goes on - fully booked from 2 morrow up till thursda (2020) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.

Doric

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Vespa scooter. We hid naethin booked, bit we set aff wi maps, Yout on page 28

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ber." The wifie smiled. "He's booked you in for the massage an min on page 80

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
, in the fullness o time. I'm booked in three lairs ben frae him, on page 51

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
A chalet hid been booked up be Oban somewye. Jonsar Ec
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ff Short Breaks, Spa & Beauty booked before 29th See https://t.co/(2017) search twitter

@Franwella tweeted
so the car's booked in tae get winter tyresoff th(2012) search twitter
Jist booked tickets tae see Steps in Apri(2011) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@AberdeenFC Fa his'nae been booked?(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
owt we'd hiv a concert, so we booked the local hall. on page 3

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
esperation in his voice, "I'm booked to go away tonight, but I get on page 55

1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
"I’ve booked all those folk who were wrong
ukit’ for English ‘I’ve booked.’
n ‘parkit’ for English ‘booked’ an ‘parked.’
"I’ve booked aa those wha wir wrongly park
"I’ve booked aa dem fock whit wir wrong pa
5 matches

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
An booked a haw, shud it rin late. on page 57

1 matches

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