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Use in varieties of Scots

bowlin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 5.5 3 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1411 2 0 1 0 0
Number of authors8 5 2 1

Occurrences of bowlin in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
the wee white baw roon at the bowlin club. The yin they rowed oot on page 1

1 matches

Dalgetty, Moira Lallans 104 - The Best Laid Schemes..., (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
we got it wan o thae Perspex bowlin-baw things that opens in twaa on page 102

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
collapsed inside the ten pin bowlin toilets. on page 169

4 matches

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
n up The Portland or doon the bowlin club. Folk huv been askin fur
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
rch evenin as ah walk tae the bowlin club. The season is just star
Ah walk intae the bowlin club feeling soor an disencha
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
He runs oer, bowlin intae me in an embrace the ki
1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
, an his howff is doun at the Bowlin Green Hous whaur they tell me
1 matches

Doric

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
Mither an Father wis awa ti a bowlin do an she hid ti keep Grandad on page 94

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
k doon a cathedral tae bigg a bowlin alley, stick yer name on't so on page 8

1 matches

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
rs an only ivver gone tae the bowlin alley!(2021) search twitter