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The word 'bothers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bothersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.798
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of bothers in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
bit if it bothers ye, of course
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
if thir 7r any rules, naebdy bothers wae them-an ye've nae idea ho on page 83

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Ah don’t think he really bothers wae it, he’s just at the no
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
Thae twa bothers will hae Tae rhyme wi ilk ith on page 155

1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
fir a wheen o bothers.
1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Matthew Fitt: a word aboot 'bad' language, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
If it bothers ye, here are some positive th
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
I'm just smallfry so naebdy bothers me. And i dinnae react tae th (2022) twitter link

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
m chasin eftèr money, an tha bothers o thïs warl, tha message get on page 9
a weethin, tae aa tha warl's bothers, catter an guid times get ïn on page 83

2 matches

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