Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bothy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

bothy	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	14.8	49	21
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	162.8	1	1
ABN - Aberdeen	10.5	1	1
DOR - General Northern	39.9	9	3
NEC - North East Central	183.5	4	1
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	30.1	6	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	32.8	25	11
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 bothy in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
s yer favourite #Doric fowk bothy ballad? https://t.co/gOKr9xSq(2020)

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
Bothy Ballad
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
ll, fields that eence fed the Bothy loons and lassies, and the in
1 matches

General Northern

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 58 - The Bothy Loon, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
The Bothy Loon on page 124

3 matches

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 71 - Snuffy, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Doric, prose
ed here aside the auld whisky bothy . So fit am I tae dae? Get ma
1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
Ye jist mient ma on at rare bothy ballad, the muckle gawkit gyp(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ve spruced up the auld pilots bothy, any chunce fer a wee discoun(2018)
id_Aberdeen Once the boatmens bothy, ayewis the boatmens bothy. C(2018)
nie, nae happy wee their auld bothy being tacken oer! ??(2018)

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Rin throu the jungle, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
rocht us intae his wee widdin bothy in the clearin an gied us a p
r o this auld Chinese lad’s bothy , he fillt ma watter bottle, a
2 matches

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
din the heid at the totty wee bothy ahint him.
on fae Jake’s ain cauld wee bothy , wi its reekless lum. “But
2 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Mountain Days and Bothy Nights - Dave Bowen and Ian
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Shi wakes up we a haed like a bothy cat on page 68

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
passed since the trip tae the bothy wae McDade an Pearcey, an the
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘It’s a bothy bro. It’s fur any cunt tae
Openin the door ay the bothy ah step ootside tae a thick,
ds the steep slope behind the bothy an intae the mist. The grun�
the glen below, back tae the bothy . Ah think ah kin hear it righ
pits an crackles again in the bothy as Pearcey stokes it wae coal
5 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
spreid oot on the flair o the bothy. They were awfie snod and com on page 9
"And he wis richt ootside the bothy, staundin there, lookin at me on page 10
. He couldna win back tae the bothy, he thocht, as this wid tak h on page 14
mind and ran no back tae the bothy, but tae the nearest meal bin on page 15
wbody in the village. In ilka bothy, folk waukened, dichted their on page 18

5 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
brocht ma signs intae Skald's bothy bi the strand. 'Goustie, an w on page 14

1 matches

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
us intae a herd's bothy. on page 39

1 matches

Robertson, Sine Lallans 59 - Newsins fae SLRC, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
eenshire. The bairns pit on a Bothy Nichts concert an some o them on page 87

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
said, pointin. 'It's yon wee bothy richt on the edge o the toun, on page 172

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
er keepit on the shelf in the bothy nixt tae the henhoose? The me on page 26
e led his faither oot tae the bothy where the animal medicines we on page 77

4 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
t wis everyday talk aboot the bothy. Then on tae "I went to the m on page 120

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
taen tae his strae bed in the bothy for a week wi a bad hoast an on page 17

4 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 58 - The Sang o the Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ang syne he was mair kent for bothy ballants but then we fund oot on page 77

1 matches

@ionafyfe tweeted
minded o the time I slipped a Bothy Ballad in Doric-Scots intae t(2020)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ster tae release ae EP wi the bothy ballad "Brose for ma breakfas(2020)
n gin it is ae fermwarker i a bothy haein "brose for his breakfas(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
ccessible wee video aboot the bothy ballad: https://t.co/fXCXCZgE (2020) twitter link
See bothy: https://t.co/szVQRElcBo an h (2019) twitter link
s yin isnae very weel kent? A bothy is a wee makeshift hoose, but (2019) twitter link