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Use in varieties of Scots

boadies Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words17.7 5.9 1.5 0 11.6 0 4.8
Number of occurrences5912 1 0 2 0 1
Number of authors11 5 1 2 1

Occurrences of boadies in Corpus

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Central

MacKinnon, Ann Lallans 70 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
boadies frae the seashore that day. on page 61

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
boadies lehin aboot, on page 96

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
imy body were the dismemberit boadies o his dochters. Aw nine o the on page 79
e sae helpfu in providin deid boadies fer medical research purposes on page 108
he capital. An so it wis that boadies stairtit bein howkit up in th on page 109
the same wey fer a whilie, wi boadies disappearin, watch bein kept on page 110

8 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ken that at Embro, scholarly boadies lik Prof Jim Millar actively
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
the Redcoats fired a volley. Boadies fell aw’where bit we presse
1 matches

Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
o the heivenly boadies langsyne gane on page 3

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
st night, dey pickit up fower boadies, an he wis ane a dem." on page 35

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De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
foo boadies, at wir stage, geng der gaet; on page 86

1 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
book, "Rule fowerty-twa. Aal boadies mair thin a mile high tae lee on page 118

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