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The word 'boa'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.4185
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 91.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 18.4 14 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of boa in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
like a feather boa windin itsel aroon on page 44

1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
uld crooners like me, foreign boa(2018)

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
us had a lang bleck and yella boa constrictor that grupped and on page 51
igh up above the grund by the boa constrictor tail. The snake w on page 56

2 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
inforest. It wis a pictur o a boa constrictor wiacraitur in its on page 9
Syne I drew the innarts o th boa constrictor, sae the growen-u on page 10
dna speak tae yon chiel anent boa constrictors, or rainforests, on page 11
I coud dae. The pictur o the boa constrictor ootby. An I wis s on page 12
e attemps forby the twa o the boa constrictor inby an ootby at on page 20
Also on pages 82
11 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
onnae go doon the shoap for a boa’le o Chardonnay.’ Apairt
the Central ‘shoap’ an ‘boa’le’ as ‘Glesca’) sicc
words like ‘shoap’ an ‘boa’le’ as a characteristic S
3 matches

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