A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'blokes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
blokesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.487
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of blokes in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
lish cless, an three or fower blokes wi them.
1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
Fits gan on soonds waur than blokes singin. Screechyer than saved(2020)

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
g about funerals, I heard two blokes say (this is NE Scots so don' (2023) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ckoots at tescos - aye n the blokes tae lol (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
it wis deid warum. The bigger blokes played fitba bit they hid tae on page 76

1 matches

General Central

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
feart fae naebdy an wid fight blokes twice es age an twice es size on page 44

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
) Ah wis asked oot by various blokes in bars. When Ah declined the(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
immediately. And that is why, blokes, we've got tae get involved i (2022) twitter link

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