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The word 'boyle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boyleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.3175
ORK - Orkney
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 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 106.2 10 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 boyle in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
@Thomsonnn83 Cormack offered Boyle 10 grand a week this time las (2022) twitter link
ae a ridiculous idea tae have Boyle up against Kennedy rather tha (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
d. And yit, ah kin hear Susan Boyle singin fae the rooftoaps, and on page 15

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
analysed by Professor Anthony Boyle, wha is an Englishman himsel on page 27
ootlined by Professor Anthony Boyle whan he said: on page 49
essor o German cawed Nicholas Boyle an it gets richt tae the hear on page 78
ies is no that grand, an Prof Boyle gangs even further in cryin d on page 79
xceptionalism, that Professor Boyle maks sic a lot o, is like a m on page 80
Also on pages 81, 82, 143
10 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Daniel Boyle.’ he sais.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Big Yin, Still Game, Frankie Boyle The Barnett Formula, North Se on page 77

1 matches

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