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The word 'boring'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boringOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51510
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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) 2369.7 1 1
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of boring in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
rid, but Darling's reply is, "Boring! You don't want to know." "Th on page 65

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
Darling’s reply is “Boring! You don’t
1 matches

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
nd for a wee night..they were boring as feck...Queensferry mob..a (2021) twitter link

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
al responses sic as yours are boring - get oar yirsel (2021) twitter link
of the malaise, blandness and boring, familiar story for anither s (2021) twitter link
ze1986 @alan_pattullo God yir boring, bit like the Glesga teams. F (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Life had become a bit boring since the local branch of the
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
g of peepil to the Trone, and boring of tongues, so that it was an
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
l it now and save us from the boring matches lol (2021) twitter link
r @BBC i agree - its getting boring now - especially as all the (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
"It was okay. Boring." on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
I suppose. I could feel them boring intae me, leaving tiny marks;
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
hae less material for ony his boring books.(2020)
w81 Na, dinnae bother, yer as boring as fuck????(2020)

South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)

BardOfMilebush To A Merican Food, (Reddit 2017) Ulster, poetry
iscuits', Why- they're just a boring scone! I cannae stand yer whi
1 matches

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