A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bumped'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bumpedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.12314
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.2 6 2
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 bumped in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
asy in Shetland! Bizarrely, I bumped into wir Karen and een o da o(2020)

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
in fittiver "it" is i noo. I bumped inti him i'day at i butchers (2019)
avejmcgregor @LadyM_McManus I bumped into the wonderful Michelle M(2019)

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
bumped intae Missus chatterbox, gey
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
@reeksarito_ @stonefish100 Bumped intae Joe on Market Stree afo (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
pleasure. Funnily enough, ah bumped intae an auld mate fae school on page 19
oned suttin yisterday when ah bumped intae him in the CO-OP. But h on page 33
"Ah bumped intae Justine yisterday at th on page 64
bumped intae someboady else ah'd tel on page 74
n why ah'm here. Ah heard yae bumped intae a mate ae mines, eh?... on page 183

5 matches

Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
Ah bumped intae yin o ma freends in a h
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
Matilda wis that if ye'd jist bumped intae each ither and had a we on page 95

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Ah bumped intae Emma an her pal this af on page 58
ver at Tesco last night an we bumped intae Nicola Buchanan's mum.. on page 169

2 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
," said Five, huffily; "Seven bumped ma elba." on page 76

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
n ye afore. The other day, ye bumped intae me in the close. Dae ye
1 matches

@johnstone_shane tweeted
heard it but it's also gettin bumped. Heard lowpin! (2020) twitter link

General Central

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
drick's new heidphones on and bumped the volume aw the wey up. The on page 36

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Fae Mooth tae Page, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central, blog
“Ah fell an bumped ma nose in the sheuch, sur.
“Ah fell an bumped ma heid in the sheuch, sur.
“I bumped my head, sir.”
3 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
inkooBarpaga Hey, remember we bumped intae him at SJP! Cannae beli(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
bumped up Admiral of the family flee on page 50

1 matches

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