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The word 'boatles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boatlesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.962
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
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 27.1 5 1
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)
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 boatles in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
juice by the look o the empty boatles.
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
the intercom. The jinglin ay boatles latticed wae a murmur ay drun
me an McDade grab another few boatles. Ah end up wae his an aw cos
If he just takes two or three boatles ay different kinds, he’s ne
3 matches

Bennett, Peter Clyde Built, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
There’s a clatter ay gless boatles fae roon the back. ‘Quick,
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
lookin at me. There’s empty boatles ay beer an that fuckin Smirno
1 matches

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