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The word 'boyd'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boydOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9138
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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) 98.5 3 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of boyd in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
een in stock - I dinna think Boyd's wid appreciate the stink Le on page 15

1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
n @SheepFanFaeEly Phone Chris Boyd for rug advice couple o pies (2020)
Boyd supports the Don's the day th(2020)

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
Scots for Children, ed. Bette Boyd, NMS Enterprises, Edinburgh, on page 122

2 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
rete wa. Ye shuid've seen May Boyd, she wis great et it, she dis on page 76

1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
nson gaes on tae quote Edward Boyd wha in the 1970s remarked:
at the end o the war wis, as Boyd says, a product o the years o
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
the hie public profile o Cat Boyd, nor the personal vote o Jean
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
he day at the inaugural Betty Boyd Memorial Scots Language Lectu (2019) twitter link

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Whun nighber Wullie Boyd wus pennin. on page 27

3 matches

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