A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bloods'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bloodsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.553
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 bloods in Corpus

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General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
es o that n 2 episodes o blue bloods. All the walking deads ina. G(2013)

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
efore until the lab gets your bloods back tae us?”
h’m fearin the worst. If ma bloods wur clear, surely it wouldnae
“Your bloods have just come back. There’
3 matches

General Central

@gordimhor1 tweeted
it's the tory chiefs and blue bloods that's the wheat.... Aye Righ(2019)