Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'boom'

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Use in varieties of Scots

boom	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	11.7	39	18
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
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	21	2	1
DOR - General Northern	62.1	14	3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	12.2	5	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.4	2	1
GLA - Glasgow	35.9	7	3
AYR - Ayrshire	21.4	2	1
LAL - General Central	6.6	5	5
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 boom in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
coalfish an oil boom... on page 6

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
nguage as it wis afore da oil boom, an dat means at da assumptio on page 10

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
this boom and bust, on page 11
boom tae bust. on page 23

2 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Boom, boom, Max Wall's siller hemmer cam on page 182

12 matches

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
an'aa!!... 'At'll learn 'em. Boom! (2020) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
@mstewart_23 Boom ya Bass(2020)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
t. Not a dickie. Just ma hert boom-boom-boomin. Just the empty g on page 1

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
Its heart gings boom-boom-boom
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
a boat, “This is called the Boom , cause w’en it ‘it's your
t ‘it's your ‘ead it goes BOOM !” A’ve aften fancied that
2 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
/Ma heart beats faster. Boom boom boom boom. Deep breaths, Dais on page 6

4 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
y papier-maché an magazines, boom, a theatre. Like an actual, d on page 3

2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ther casualty ay Thatcher’s boom or bust Britain. Nae longer a
1 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Mouse Eat Mouse World, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
boom-cognate-boom -hum-end-o-game out there
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
lanet Bumhole – soondit as 'boom -ho-leh' tae hae a lauch at th
1 matches

Smith, George Electrical Love, (Thi-Wurd 2013) Central, prose
ae these, room’s goin linde-boom !
1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor Hippies, Authenticity and Globalisation, (Wordpress 2022) Central, prose
ance an throu time led till a boom o collegianer backpackin an e
1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
essin room celebrations,then, BOOM!?? Shes @TomLang05 ????2nd (2020)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
e thought Brenda was bad then BOOM! In comes another villain! ht(2018)