A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

boul Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 1.5 1.5 0 0 0 48.7
Number of occurrences153 1 0 0 0 11
Number of authors7 3 1 4

Occurrences of boul in Corpus

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Central

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
ae the waitress. An A gaes aw boul in the mou. Nou an again hit on page 4

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen Eemis Stane 1 - Lees an Crams, or Ossian on the Death of Cuchullin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Aboot tha great daeins o tha boul Cuchullin? on page 22

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
An a boul o kale tae fill yir tum.
1 matches

Doric

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
arkit aboot their lass wi the boul in her mou… and they’ll s
1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An aye she was boul an gye tovey on page 10
An Ulstermen aye are boul, on page 25
Noo Moses boul, houls owre his heid, on page 33
An aye hae mind o tha boul MacCassey. on page 54

4 matches

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ht a lamp an pit ït unnèr a boul. Na, ye pit ït on a stan, wh on page 5
arkt that wee bit intae a big boul o flure, tae tha hale lock o on page 9
that a wumman pits ïn a bïg boul o flure. An ït spreids aa th on page 94

3 matches

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Boul Colonel Paddy caa'd his hame, on page 2
He wus a boul big hallion, on page 3
Hae ye seen thaim boul big fairmers, wi thair shooth on page 21

3 matches

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An wae them they tuk a boul wheen o men, on page 29

1 matches

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