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Use in varieties of Scots

bowel Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.2 6.6 10.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2013 7 0 0 0 0
Number of authors9 3 6

Occurrences of bowel in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
hat ah could barely digest ah bowel ae tomatae soup, the big day on page 121

1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
He goat the, Erse Rippin' - Bowel Strippin',
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
‘’Well, things like Bowel cancer’’ he says, cooly a
er himsel when he muttered ‘Bowel Cancer’. He said they words
velocity ae ma unpredictable bowel movements. Sensin that ma ill
3 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
many symptoms ae advanced ‘Bowel Cancer’. Ah sat doon oan th
in in the ominous words ae ‘Bowel Cancer’ intae the search en
ngine. A persistent change in bowel habits? Ah’ll fuckin say. B
3 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
en scrub oaff the symptoms ae bowel cancer that huv left a perman
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
rts arse. Ah’ve goat fuckin bowel cancer. A silent killer’’
€™What the fuck dae yae mean, bowel cancer?’’ he gushes, flab
2 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ntMP Please dinnae ignore the bowel screening programme. Ma brith(2020) search twitter

Doric

Reid, Adeline Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Clootie Duff, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Coupit in a sonsie bowel the makkins for the duff on page 20

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
bby: fae the claain oot o the bowel an the dunt against the dunge on page 88

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n er moo like a goldfish in a bowel. on page 25

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Sittin on a bowel o' brose, waitin fir the vann on page 144

1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
ay efter the storm. A blonde, bowel-crappit loon wis seen rippin on page 118

1 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
hid the leavins fae the cat's bowel inno a piece! https://t.co/HM(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
t doon tae go fer a quick wee bowel movement! Got the face o'a 70(2019) search twitter

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