A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bobs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bobsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.486
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 bobs in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
even louder as he could hear Bobs feet comin closer and closer.
1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
cks! yer bleckthorns! tak yer bobs an posies on pilgrimage to He on page 3

1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
an shullins. Syne it wis twa bobs, hauf-crouns an ten bob notes on page 58

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
egither a load o wee bits and bobs that are gey important tae me on page 124
m. Violet looked for bits and bobs she could on page 129

2 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
@JeffBrazier Guid luck tae Bobs! J your boys will dae you pro(2015)
teinFoodShop Yum! Prayerfully Bobs feeling better soon. Hugggggg(2015)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
g! I'm still finding bits and bobs of unfinished or scrawled stu(2020)