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The word 'boadies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boadiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus15.14910
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 95.6 9 2
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
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) 31.4 1 1
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 463.8 33 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of boadies in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
st night, dey pickit up fower boadies, an he wis ane a dem." on page 35

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
foo boadies, at wir stage, geng der gaet; on page 86

1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
o the heivenly boadies langsyne gane on page 3

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ken that at Embro, scholarly boadies lik Prof Jim Millar actively
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
boadies lehin aboot, on page 96

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
imy body were the dismemberit boadies o his dochters. Aw nine o the on page 79
e sae helpfu in providin deid boadies fer medical research purposes on page 108
he capital. An so it wis that boadies stairtit bein howkit up in th on page 109
the same wey fer a whilie, wi boadies disappearin, watch bein kept on page 110

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Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
the Redcoats fired a volley. Boadies fell aw’where bit we presse
1 matches

General Central

MacKinnon, Ann Lallans 70 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
boadies frae the seashore that day. on page 61

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
book, "Rule fowerty-twa. Aal boadies mair thin a mile high tae lee on page 118

1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
thrie research an' education boadies on page 6
- The thrie boadies wul operate wi'in a commissio on page 7
o' the research an' education boadies. on page 9
thrie research an' education boadies on page 10
Scots bae depairtments an sib boadies. on page 12
Also on pages 13, 17, 21, 33, 39, 43, 48, 52, 53, 58, 60, 61, 64, 66, 672
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