A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bowel'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bowelOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.7199
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 62 10 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
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 bowel in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
bby: fae the claain oot o the bowel an the dunt against the dunge on page 88

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n er moo like a goldfish in a bowel. on page 25

1 matches

General Northern

Reid, Adeline Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Clootie Duff, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Coupit in a sonsie bowel the makkins for the duff on page 20

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Sittin on a bowel o' brose, waitin fir the vann on page 144

1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
ay efter the storm. A blonde, bowel-crappit loon wis seen rippin on page 118

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
t doon tae go fer a quick wee bowel movement! Got the face o'a 70(2019)

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
hid the leavins fae the cat's bowel inno a piece! https://t.co/HM(2020)

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
He goat the, Erse Rippin' - Bowel Strippin',
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
‘’Well, things like Bowel cancer’’ he says, cooly a
er himsel when he muttered ‘Bowel Cancer’. He said they words
velocity ae ma unpredictable bowel movements. Sensin that ma ill
3 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
many symptoms ae advanced ‘Bowel Cancer’. Ah sat doon oan th
in in the ominous words ae ‘Bowel Cancer’ intae the search en
ngine. A persistent change in bowel habits? Ah’ll fuckin say. B
3 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
en scrub oaff the symptoms ae bowel cancer that huv left a perman
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
rts arse. Ah’ve goat fuckin bowel cancer. A silent killer’’
€™What the fuck dae yae mean, bowel cancer?’’ he gushes, flab
2 matches

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ntMP Please dinnae ignore the bowel screening programme. Ma brith(2020)