A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bony'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bonyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bony in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Mornin starts awa affa bony an bricht,
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
lets. Maybe it wis the haurd, bony broo, bit she remindit Beatri
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
roon the envelope, feelin his bony knuckles against ma palm. He on page 11

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
roon the envelope, feelin his bony knuckles against ma palm. He
1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Halloween, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ould hear the bogles ootside, bony fingers chappin the windae, t
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
@donna_gallers Bass is too bony fer ma likin. Ah cannae bear (2020)

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