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The word 'bombed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bombedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.175
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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 bombed in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
hey worrit aboot mibbe gittin bombed. Bit the numpty widnae speak.
in her coat. Ah didnae waant bombed or shot. Then she lit oot a y
2 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
itever she's cried, hus stink-bombed ma office! 'There's nae doubt on page 80

1 matches

Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
n on that's waur. Bairns bein bombed in Syria, austerity cuts scli
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
n the like: then, wance ye've bombed aw the jelly-fish oot the roa on page 97

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ur weans are deid an stervin, bombed an burnt ilk day an nicht in on page 77

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
amaicans, though), stoppin et bombed oot buildins and shelled hoos
1 matches

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