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The word 'bubbles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bubblesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.42417
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 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) 88.3 1 1
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 bubbles in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
gowdfish blew a hale string o bubbles, as if ae agree.
anely a skiffin o bubbles ahin it, trysted awa like the
soapy bubbles.
3 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
its fat wet bubbles targets for oor sticks - on page 8

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Hey, we're gan in aboot i' bubbles on page 165

3 matches

@daleser23 tweeted
g at stupid fuckin song aboot bubbles really boils my bleed. Get a (2014)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
rawstring bag. She shakes the bubbles aff on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
uckin pairty, right?’’ he bubbles. ‘’We collect the money,
1 matches

West Central

Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
, when wir ideas brimmed like bubbles in a glaiss? It wis because w
1 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
wis that hoat ye cuid see the bubbles comin up in the road. on page 76

1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ew years come back in perfect bubbles, in nae particular order, the on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
h afore, seein the ripples an bubbles that disturbed the otherwise
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
s staundin at the sink, soapy bubbles drippin aff her pink rubber g
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
d Mr Wonka. 'It fills ye fu o bubbles, and the bubbles are fu o a s on page 119

2 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
Some were skooshin watter an bubbles at the buildins; some were di on page 8

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ce the foam hus settled intae bubbles in each o their glasses, ah t on page 13

1 matches

McGibbon, Joe Lallans 74 - Draps o Sapie-Bubble, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
wi sapie watter, bricht bubbles wur blawn tae
At lest I got blawin, bubbles big, bubbles sma.
big, bubbles sma.
3 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
or in speech bubbles in
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
O bubbles, gaen whurlin on page 3

1 matches

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