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The word 'boney'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boneyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1108
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of boney in Corpus

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General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
nes0 Wouldnae be 1978 withoot Boney M??(2020)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"Gin ve'll remove this boney shard." on page 31

1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
' ground ah felt it. Th' lang boney fingers as thay wrapped thems
, ah felt th' identical lang, boney fingers. Thay enclosed themse
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
is pit thegither an this time Boney wis gien a richt hammerin at on page 92

1 matches

Glasgow

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
even though her hands felt aw boney when I high fived her, it wis
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Tha Boney Boys in shoart breeks then on page 10
Lukkin sooth tha tither - Boney' Neb on page 33

2 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
unners fae the Relief o Derry boney fae @thederrywalls yestreen. (2015) twitter link

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
Theo ens up wa hee haw. Thon boney was called aff coz o tha viri (2021) twitter link