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The word 'boris'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
borisOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus15.15017
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 31 7 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 38.7 15 4
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 30.2 23 8
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 boris in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
listen to her briefings, not Boris’. She cares about fowk, Bori (2020) twitter link

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
Boris jist bleeters(2020)
colaSturgeon Is that an image Boris wee his heid in the sand?(2020)
e service to Greece at moment Boris's offspring awa ti see granda(2020)
Boris awa again? what a gype(2020)
belOakeshott Bring yer wallet Boris nae moochin(2020)
and 1 other occurrences.

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
903 Jist ken Chris Packam and Boris Johnson's sister.(2020)

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ix an merched awa leukin like Boris Karloff wi a byle on his bum. on page 86

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
the mornin news, that the PM, Boris Johnson, hus cawed a press co on page 14
written a story cawed simply 'Boris Johnston'. Yous could say its on page 50
"This monologue's cawed, Boris Johnstone" ah tell thum "No B on page 53
wis inspired by ma hatred fur Boris Johnson and of course ma own on page 57

6 matches

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ng, Billy is an ugly wee get, Boris Karloff eat yer hert oot. His
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ody that looked sae much like Boris Johnson deserved a slap (even
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
uesday - rest assured though boris n ruth will guide us tories t (2020) twitter link
m8 - theyre awe slaggin off boris non stop - n look at the sta (2020) twitter link
streets for awe the royals n boris dads a roaster but whae cares (2021) twitter link
cannae resist this yin - if boris n nikki r no available - get (2020) twitter link
i would like to wish boris j/nigel f/donny mactrump and (2020) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.

West Central

@annieones tweeted
hat's braw, yae described big boris tae a tee..... a callt him a (2021) twitter link
riously,what an embarrassment Boris is,does no-one check his spee (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie The dingin doun o devolution, (Mak Forrit 2020) Central - Edinburgh, blog
tae keep ‘the Jocks’, as Boris likes tae cry us, in their pl
1 matches

General Central

Seth-Smith, Niki Chynge o sum kind is comin either wey, but a vote tae leave wad empooer Europe’s faur richt, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
rkel et al, nor ane biggit by Boris Johnson his lane?
1 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
verb, as in Tam o Shanter - Boris Johnson has tint his reason a(2016)

@RickHJohnston tweeted
ye on bahookie on the wey oot Boris. Winnae miss ye! As the sun r (2022) twitter link

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
in Bute Hoose. So last nicht Boris will hae been tellt. Shame oo(2020)
@HelenTrevone @JaneyGodley Boris is ae gowkairse of the heiche(2020)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
er to leave that to folk like Boris Johnson and his pals doon in (2022) twitter link
That's no US by the way, it's Boris and his Eton chums. (2022) twitter link

@Chazzbat tweeted
Ah luve a bit o Boris baitin. ?? https://t.co/fsb9i(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
So both Boris Johnson (the ACTUAL Prime Min(2020)
ing I doubt, however, is that Boris Johnson was watching. Foulkes(2020)
Watching Boris the bawbag wearin a white coa(2020)
Tilly failed tae write "fuck Boris JOHNSON". Full name required (2020)
nybody else clock the state o Boris Johnson's suit jaicket? Boggi(2020)
and 9 other occurrences.

@ThonJacobite tweeted
Dear Boris Johnson, oor ancestors gave t(2021)

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