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The word 'boul'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boulOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6157
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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) 358.6 7 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 54.5 3 1

Occurrences of boul in Corpus

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General Northern

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
arkit aboot their lass wi the boul in her mou… and they’ll s
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
An a boul o kale tae fill yir tum.
1 matches

General Central

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
ae the waitress. An A gaes aw boul in the mou. Nou an again hit on page 4

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen Eemis Stane 1 - Lees an Crams, or Ossian on the Death of Cuchullin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Aboot tha great daeins o tha boul Cuchullin? on page 22

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An aye she was boul an gye tovey on page 10
An Ulstermen aye are boul, on page 25
Noo Moses boul, houls owre his heid, on page 33
An aye hae mind o tha boul MacCassey. on page 54

4 matches

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Boul Colonel Paddy caa'd his hame, on page 2
He wus a boul big hallion, on page 3
Hae ye seen thaim boul big fairmers, wi thair shooth on page 21

3 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An wae them they tuk a boul wheen o men, on page 29

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ht a lamp an pit ït unnèr a boul. Na, ye pit ït on a stan, wh on page 5
arkt that wee bit intae a big boul o flure, tae tha hale lock o on page 9
that a wumman pits ïn a bïg boul o flure. An ït spreids aa th on page 94

3 matches

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