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The word 'boolin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boolinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.1179
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
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
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 60.6 5 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of boolin in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
hit kind hit wis) scrittin an boolin aboot ida lum richt abön her on page 38

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
s newsin t'im last wik it the boolin, an he wis es richt eg Tain, on page 22
or fit? Ye ken, wi'v bin gaun boolin wi Alec an Nellie fir a lang on page 23

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
orin him. "Wi cud ging te the boolin or buy a National Trust membe on page 85

1 matches

Aberdeen

Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
to Leisure card, it's for the boolin, it's nae for the king [sic]
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
er wis enjoyin an efternuin's boolin doon at the boolin club lest
doon at the boolin club lest month an efter the
2 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
hames, oor miners clubs, oor boolin greens. These deiths ar mair
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Afore we hud ri telly, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Saltcoats, prose
ish it aff ri morn. A'v a big boolin' match oan ri night.”
1 matches

General Central

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
gaun tae a wappenshaw at the boolin the morn's mornin, Billy, we' on page 6

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Deanburnhaugh Boolin Club Dances an sic lik. Tom S
Carpet Boolin Club hed thair meetings on ae
yaised tae tell uz aboot the Boolin Club dances shei gaed til tha
l comatees, i.e. Flouer Show, Boolin Club an nae doot ithers is we
anks Ferm, Ay, the Greenbanks Boolin Club yaised tae
5 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
guild, or the rotary, or the boolin green. Ye'd been asked on the on page 78

1 matches

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