A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bollocks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.1 0 5.9 0 0 31 0
Number of occurrences70 4 0 0 3 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of bollocks in Corpus

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Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
rdeenFC No integrity? That’s bollocks. The club embarrassed , shame (2020) twitter link
thing is that we get fed the bollocks aboot random fixtures, yet... (2020) twitter link
CraigGlasgow2 @mikedailly Fit bollocks (2020) twitter link
screaming class war tae this bollocks https://t.co/Ya1zoRlRNq (2020) twitter link

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
s is 21st century nae 19th!” Bollocks, man!!(2020) search twitter
st ahm gang tae add, “Treble Bollocks” lol(2020) search twitter
@NorthumbrianRep Utter double bollocks!! Just put feart amongst us!(2020) search twitter