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The word 'bomb'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bombOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.23421
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 42 4 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.5 6 4
WCE - West Central 39.9 9 3
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bomb in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
The nuclear bomb on page 4

1 matches

Shetland

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
ot aa da coles. I lik ta dive bomb dem, laandin in da middle an
1 matches

Watt, Valerie A skoit trowe da shops, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
“Bath Bomb” hit said, “Relax in the
1 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
da moarn. Me room looks lik a bomb site(2021)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
is five year aul, a terrorist bomb at the local Buddhist temple
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
the place wiz fulled wi army bomb disposal teams, forensic fowk
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
in tae think he’d swalled a bomb. His kyte wis rummlin an
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
ife three times; fae a German bomb, fae the cruel sea, an fae th on page 38

4 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
n @AberdeenFC Goona cost ye a bomb if ya left it running for 13 (2020)

(South) East Central

Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
ou that the Soviet Union will bomb you, but it's all lies." said on page 87

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e rid that he's a tickin time bomb. Ah kin sense wae the tension on page 105

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
aeroplane. They wur comin tae bomb us noo! Ah grabbed her airm.
he whispered. “Whit’s tae bomb here?”
h furgot. She’d be doon the bomb shelter. Ah bet she is aw rig
3 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
baffies and stertit tae dive bomb the balloon oan her broomstic
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
aboot Matilda pittin a stink-bomb unner yer desk.' on page 80
a wee veeper wha pit a stink-bomb unner ma desk .. .' on page 83
m there wis an enormous human bomb that could gang aff and blaw on page 144

3 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
hought sumdy'd let affa stink bomb an we aw got evacuatet oot th on page 89
SEX BOMB SEX BOMB YOU'RE MA SEX BOMB on page 91

5 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
place whaur they dropped the bomb, on page 93

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
a nail bomb ti go aff in yir puss. on page 10

1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
She's jist a bomb; she wis built tae explode. on page 83

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
the bomb-shards in his wame. He hoasts on page 45

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Throu skirlin bomb-faas, throu the venom-braith on page 29
shuid niver be whaur wrackin bomb on page 30

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
the bomb o wir future explodes in a cr on page 77

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
shores, it rained bullet and bomb. on page 30

1 matches

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