A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

boabby Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.5 12.3 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2424 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 3

Occurrences of boabby in Corpus

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Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
in. Grievously fur ma belovit Boabby it wiznae tae pass iz he hizs on page 78

2 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
Boabby takes charge. ‘C’moan, gu
‘Sergio!’ says Boabby.
™ Sergio pits his airms round Boabby and plants a big kiss on each
John looks at me and then at Boabby. ‘Roberto?’
‘It’s ma name,’ says Boabby.
21 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ets awey. A proper Greyfriars Boabby, so the wee man is. A fact th
1 matches

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