A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'boag'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boagOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7152
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 883.4 10 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 256.1 5 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of boag in Corpus

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Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
The boag streetchin oot aheid, far, on page 6
tud wee in the wileness o the boag an on page 7
The boag's dark-sweelin, quait, on page 17
Sky an boag, ower on page 20
Frae oot the boag, amang the queelrods an on page 24
Also on pages 28, 43, 53
10 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
er tha nicht sky, lichtin tha boag tha wye Grace cud mak oot tha
hn. “There’s nae mair nor boag fur forty mile thon wye. Thon
ootby, Grace leukked ower tha boag tae tha sooth. Aboot a mile a
ut it wus an set aff owre tha boag. Comin nearhaun, she fun a bo
floatin oan tha scum o a deep boag-hole. Castin hissel doon on a
5 matches

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