A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

boyo Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 0 0 0 0 4.8
Number of occurrences43 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of boyo in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"Ok, boyo, howzaboot a race?" on page 29

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
son am awa fir a leek shortly boyo! (2021) twitter link
the welsh folks stopped being boyo n stormed into these supermar (2020) twitter link

Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Says she "Ye shud mine yersel boyo, on page 56

1 matches

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