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The word 'bowlin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bowlinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2148
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 22.2 5 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 20.1 4 1
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 bowlin in Corpus

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Shetland

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

Mid Northern A

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

General Northern

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

(South) East 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

West Central

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

Glasgow

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

General Central

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

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