A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'boiled'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boiledOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.965
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 3
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
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)
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 boiled in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Thoo hates boiled eggs? There's notheen ither. on page 6
ey watter cheust festered and boiled. on page 71

2 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Boiled, salted an ceremoniously shak on page 81

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Haggis tasting notes, and whisky pairings, (Brisk Northerly 2019) Orkney, blog
n’s honest sonsie face when boiled and drained luks like a marbl
1 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
explains why i'm cooking boiled rice for tea......much stretc(2011)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@ColinBell2505 @cfdtizzi Boiled then thrown in the chipper. W(2020)