A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

boffin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences43 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of boffin in Corpus

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Central

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
rsions, we see the gey heidie boffin billy, Dr. Henry Jekyll, an t on page 119

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
in gerunds, we hae a skeillie boffin-billie (or aiblins twa) up oo
1 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
Scottish Perliement Election. Boffin gadgies wi white lab coats ha
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
eed fur me. An openeen fur a 'boffin' in a brand-new company. on page 68

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