A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bowt Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.1 0 0 178.9 29.1 0 0
Number of occurrences230 0 18 5 0 0
Number of authors10 5 5

Occurrences of bowt in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I bowt some crisps and a can o Coke on page 1
id wis that Englishman that's bowt the owld Kirk Hall. on page 9
ed aal night taegither then I bowt her fish and chips on page 10
I bowt twa summer frocks fae Croy's on page 20
o he gaed intae the Hydro and bowt anither wan. on page 25
Also on pages 29, 41, 47, 58, 81
13 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
bowt bulletin time on the ansible on page 21

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
we bowt hid aal back, of coorse, on page 9

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
hed his factory in a field he bowt fae a ferm in his home toon o
1 matches

Harris, Jane Me Laand, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
Laan har man hid bowt
1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
bowt weel!' on page 18

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
an bowt her a brotch med o amber an g on page 66

1 matches

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
n ex-army gretcoat dat he had bowt efter da end o da Second Wirl
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
t tanks tae a splendid suit I bowt. Hit wis Uggledlugs dat shaae
1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
rackin deal on da envelopes I bowt daday https://t.co/7FspoysqN7 (2019) twitter link

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