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The word 'boast'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boastOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.176
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 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 56.9 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of boast in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
nd to send it tae ma uncle to boast tae him and tae ma dad becaus
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Dinna boast, aye, aye, aye, dinna boast on page 80

2 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
ho and hauf-turnin it intae a boast): "H'r'm! Whit's gaun on?" on page 43

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Oor bank accoont wus boast. on page 46

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Can aa in beauty boast. on page 41

1 matches

Smyth, Anne I Corinthians 13, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster, prose
e in ma hert A’m the like o boast bress or less a tinglin cymba
1 matches

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