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The word 'bowie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bowieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1138
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bowie in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
BOWIE bored intae his fore-erm on page 12

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
on ye'll come on a chiel wi a bowie o watter, folla him till e ho on page 116

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
Franklin, Marvin Gaye, David Bowie, Prince an Elton John. on page 6

1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
GaryR @AndrewBowie_MP Blocker Bowie Idealism nae realism(2020)
@Ali_Leith Yon Bowie boy wid be better wee a pail (2020)
Bowie weers make up https://t.co/Gi(2020)

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
ically sick when ah saw David Bowie askin Scotland tae 'stay' as
o tae lea him? Ah luved David Bowie. An ah felt betrayed bi him.
2 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
ae last swallie frae the beer bowie ben the scullery, and stoiter
oot and yirdit, and the beer bowie in the scullery wis staved in
2 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Bowie the ferrier, it Borth’ickbr
caulf frae Meadshaw. Mr.Bowie, ane o the Hawick blacksmiths
2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Prince, Princess Leia an Bowie's deid! on page 40

1 matches

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