A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bollocks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bollocksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.583
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 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 1
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 bollocks in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
rdeenFC No integrity? That’s bollocks. The club embarrassed , shame (2020) twitter link
thing is that we get fed the bollocks aboot random fixtures, yet... (2020) twitter link
CraigGlasgow2 @mikedailly Fit bollocks (2020) twitter link
screaming class war tae this bollocks https://t.co/Ya1zoRlRNq (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ow thuma frisbee. That sortae bollocks." on page 132

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South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
s is 21st century nae 19th!” Bollocks, man!!(2020)
st ahm gang tae add, “Treble Bollocks” lol(2020)
@NorthumbrianRep Utter double bollocks!! Just put feart amongst us!(2020)