A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

boag Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.6 0 0 0 0 0 66.4
Number of occurrences150 0 0 0 0 15
Number of authors2 2

Occurrences of boag in Corpus

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Ulster

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
The boag streetchin oot aheid, far, on page 6
tud wee in the wileness o the boag an on page 7
The boag's dark-sweelin, quait, on page 17
Sky an boag, ower on page 20
Frae oot the boag, amang the queelrods an on page 24
Also on pages 28, 43, 53
10 matches

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
er tha nicht sky, lichtin tha boag tha wye Grace cud mak oot tha
hn. “There’s nae mair nor boag fur forty mile thon wye. Thon
ootby, Grace leukked ower tha boag tae tha sooth. Aboot a mile a
ut it wus an set aff owre tha boag. Comin nearhaun, she fun a bo
floatin oan tha scum o a deep boag-hole. Castin hissel doon on a
5 matches

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