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The word 'boaties'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boatiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.6186
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 39.2 12 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 2
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 5.3 4 1
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)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of boaties in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
ht aboat wis thi hairber, the boaties an thi sea. Ma hero's wis lad on page 1
ed's wis a bit a grun eit sma boaties used tae catch feish ower thi on page 19
ifter at, bit at least aa thi boaties got sum deesint big hauls. It on page 20
we us Boddimer's berthen wer boaties en ther hairber en thi winter on page 50

6 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
hear e wird o God. He saw twa boaties hauled up on e shore. E fishe on page 87

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
. "'Fit'll we christen it? Aa boaties hae names," he speired.
he Quarry Quine," quo Jenny. "Boaties are aye weemin."
A fleet o rooshty fishin boaties bobbit at anchor. The lift wi
3 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
ansported doon it bi 'rabelo' boaties daes rin throu the city thou. on page 9

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
nd and cast nets oot in their boaties.
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
n dey Ah wis joukin amang the boaties beachit oan the shore + nets on page 11
hir waa tae bield the beachit boaties. Gin, seys Skaldie, the waves on page 14

4 matches

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