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The word 'bounce'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bounceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.3219
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.5 6 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 45.2 9 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 bounce in Corpus

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Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
ees, an du kin see it. Dey'll bounce aroond, runnin on da spot, gi
1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
ne tae soul bar for pre match bounce. https://t.co/ixy4hpAPjL(2020)
be no sitting allowed. Let's bounce this place. https://t.co/4P1U(2020)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"Ding-a-ling the bell will bounce." on page 8

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
I stoat an bounce the ba
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
during WW2). It wis during a bounce game in Burma that he got his
That wis jist a bounce game, during the actual trial
2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
aes calling - what a way tae bounce back - b oan the burra! (2020) twitter link
- he flashed it again in the bounce game up there afore a cood bl (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Wee Roge Boobs, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ly, when your happy with your bounce an’ go oan the third bounce
an’ go oan the third bounce! If you look off A WILL be th
2 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
g before they showed up, then bounce in bold as brass. The light c on page 4
up, mate, honestly. Yi cannae bounce aboot sayin shit like that ab on page 9
fucked years ago. We used tae bounce in tae git baws that hud been on page 15
shouts tae his wee squad tae bounce. McColl, Bailey n Whytey star on page 28
uy on, n he's aboot thirty. A bounce up tae them. 'Haw you, fuckin on page 39
Also on pages 40, 47, 52
8 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Been like that ever since. We bounce aboot wae other crowds, as ye
1 matches

General Central

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
the bed wi his fist, I kindo bounce back up, and I laugh, so he h
1 matches

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