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Use in varieties of Scots

bogs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.2 6.6 6 0 5.8 20.7 0
Number of occurrences2013 4 0 1 2 0
Number of authors11 5 4 1 1

Occurrences of bogs in Corpus

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Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
and. gear. Een the dysarts an bogs wir subject tae Shaggie Heid. on page 14

1 matches

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
re are fowk who are lik' peat bogs. Mammy, on page

7 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
Power walk intently tae the bogs - where's eh bogs? Gents toi on page 3

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
, "git you tae the Argos peat-bogs and dinna even think aboot co on page 10

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
a minute, then meet me in the bogs, yeah?’
look as we come back fae the bogs the gither. ‘That Guinness
2 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
genstein, yer neibour ower at Bogs o Bourrachie Chairlie the Paw on page 88

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
nt far aboot the crafty o the Bogs wiz? She wiz busy scrubbin th
1 matches

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
t acause o the drainin o peat bogs. The harmful effects o pestic
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
s tae my flat under the loons bogs at closing time - see ye the (2022) twitter link

Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
me were oot in the Billister bogs an I lost my left boot and he(2018) search twitter

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
O'er peat bogs deep, screes and scars on page 50

2 matches

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