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579 occurrences of boy.

181 documents matching criteria (13.75% of corpus)

1,574,880 total words in matching documents (34.33% of corpus)

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Title Author Multimedia Word count Freq. Norm.
Ane Auld Sang Purves, David 7,319 1 0.14

... loch(an), n, lake loss, v, lose loue, v, love loun, n, boy lourd, a, heavy lousum, a, lovable lowdent, v, calmed down ...
Winnlestrae [Content label: serious] Blackhall, Sheena 7,366 1 0.14

... Ritchie (b. Ballater 1929, d. Oshawa, Ontario 2000). As a boy he was partly raised by an aunt in a farm in Glen Muick. ...
Guts Barron, Charles 22,515 3 0.13

... ask to be lee’d te, mither. Jist pit it doon tae your wee boy’s lucky charm. GEORGIE (To audience.) ‘At means he’s been ...
... 30. An’ you took them, without thinkin’ to check. Bright boy. They must think you’re their Santy Claus. DOD I’m sorry, ...
... Ma! GEORGIE (putting on a “mummy comforting her wee boy” voice) Dinna worry, my loon. I’ll tell the bobbies that ...
Jade Lute Purves, David 7,581 1 0.13

... waterfall lippert, a, disturbed littil, a, little loun, n, boy lourd, a, heavy lousum, a, lovable lowe, n, flame lown, a, ...
Extracts from weblog [Content label: serious] Rimbaud, Dee 8,258 1 0.12

... of unthinking golems (although it is a thought, that Billy Boy may well be a manifestation of Satan): just that there is ...
Conversation 40: Two students from near Dumfries on university and home [Content label: lesser] N/A Video 8,270 1 0.12

... erm the woman that lives downstairs from us has got a wee boy,// F1154: //[sniff]// F1155: and that's what, I ...
Conversation 36: Family in Hamilton on childhood memories and holidays N/A Audio 8,325 1 0.12

... front,// panels behind. F718: //Right, like a a Del Boy er,// F1077: //There were a lot more// //Oh it had ...
Travel journal: USSR 852 35,187 4 0.11

... three days per week, helping a 7-year-old Anglo-Russian boy improve his reading to the point where he can gain ...
... to Winchester Public School. She has just started with the boy, Alex [CENSORED: surname], whose father is on secondment ...
... wins out. The ballet on Tuesday was a bit like that: boy meets girl, they fall in love and jump about a lot, aged ...
... partly because she hopes her children, a girl of 14 and a boy of about 7, will pick up some foreign language. The girl ...
Scottish Parliament: Official Report (27/03/03) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 52,991 6 0.11

... 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and even beyond. I started as an office boy at 16 years of age. In those days, it was not possible to ...
... days, it was not possible to be promoted beyond an office boy until it was seen whether the call came for national ...
... of them was the head clerk, who had started as an office boy in the same firm when Queen Victoria was in the last few ...
... Presiding Officer: You have one minute. Mrs McIntosh: Oh boy. In that case, I pay tribute to previous contributors ...
... Piraeus have made other bids. However, even an Edinburgh boy such as I knows that Glasgow can readily see off that ...
Conversation 34: Two students on leisure interests and part-time work [Content label: serious] N/A Video 9,753 1 0.10

... //[laugh]// M1048: complained to him about a boy that had told her where the gravy was, [laugh] //and ...
Scottish Parliament: Business Bulletin 116/2002 Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 10,576 1 0.09

... in Iraq by any means necessary; condemns the USA's bully-boy tactics and its international sabre-rattling, which does ...
The Tragedie o Macbeth Purves, David 22,141 2 0.09

... SIWARD, his son SETON, an officer attending on Macbeth BOY, son to Macduff An English Doctor A Scottish Doctor An ...
... learning leit, list lichtlie, belittle loue, love loun, boy lounder, thrash lourd, heavy lousum, loving lowden, calm ...
Conversation 16: Four students on memories and music festivals [Content label: serious] N/A Video 11,091 1 0.09

... sort of, sets of cousins that weren't, weren't that bad boy, you know, and it was my, one of my aunts has got four ...
BBC Voices Recording: Hawick N/A Audio 11,536 1 0.09

... hookey'.// M1010: Oo caed it 'dippy' when I was a boy. //Ye playin dippy frae the scuil.// F1011: ...
Conversation 33: Two female students on Scotland, and University education N/A Video 11,628 1 0.09

... was, but then th- her son came in, and he I, poor little boy, he was too big for his age, //I feel really bad saying ...
BBC Voices Recording: Inverurie N/A Audio 12,014 1 0.08

... it's aye either got a loon or a quine, //dependin on boy or girl.// F1001: //Mmhm.// M1000: //Aye.// M999: ...
Interview with Stan Kirkpatrick, Part 1, for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 12,193 1 0.08

... officer said you "you'll learn to speak their language, boy", and I managed to get a good smattering of Hindustani ...
Serendipity and ither poems in Scots and English Blackhall, Sheena 12,339 1 0.08

... Lan Tune: can be sung to a variation of ‘To be a Farmer’s Boy.’ Ten generations o my fowk hae vrocht the North East lan ...
Scottish Parliament: Committees: Equal Opportunities: Official Reports: Meeting 2, 2003 Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 12,710 1 0.08

... James O'Rourke: I have a multidisabled, visually impaired boy and I would say that there is more awareness in this area ...
Interview with Rev. John G. Sinclair for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 13,717 1 0.07

... //Yes.// If I came home from school as a small boy and said "I saw a brown cow down the road", I was told ...
A Study into the Knowledge and Use of Scots Amongst Primary Pupils on Upper Deeside Blackhall, Sheena 29,793 2 0.07

... spoke English in the interview setting, but as one boy pointed out 'I don't know you', and the interviews with ...
... is not the language of their children. One primary seven boy was desperate to know 'how he had scored', so he could ...
Scottish Parliament: Official Report (26/09/01) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 33,438 2 0.06

... Scots officially to children who really spoke Scots. A wee boy put up his hand and said, "Please Sir, does oor real ...
... we need to continue with that progress. I hope that my wee boy has more success with modern languages than I did. 17:48 ...
The Mossflow Holton, Brian 33,939 2 0.06

... amang Shi Jin’s cottars wis Quarto Wang, an he wis the boy ti answer back at onie officiars; he wis that snell-gabbit ...
... laddie! Whit’s in yir buckets?” “Guid drink”, says the boy. “Whit is’t the bucketfu?” “Ay, ye like yir joke, freir.” ...
BBC Voices Recording: Perth N/A Audio 17,146 1 0.06

... you were meant to wear trousers you would have been born a boy!" //"Get them off! You should have a skirt on", an// ...
The Borth’ick Waitter Rodger, Matt 21,032 1 0.05

... Davie Riddle whae played the bagpipes wi mei; i the Hawick Boy’s Brigade Pipe Band. Hei marriet ae lass frae Lanarkshire ...
The Annals of Arbuthnott Part One Williamson, Isabella 23,042 1 0.04

... three feein' markets - always on market days. As a young boy, when John Watson's family flitted to the Wairds from ...
Interview 21: Suhayl Saadi N/A Audio 23,059 1 0.04

... yeah.// M762: erm and and you know, it was a wee boy thing, you know, //as well, you know, Tolkien,// F963: ...
The Quarry Blackhall, Sheena 23,932 1 0.04

... mother): b.197 Big Tam Laggeran (a drug dealer: Myra’s boy friend) Neil Duguid (adopted son of Myra Anderson): b.1990 ...
Mountain Music - Chapters 1-4 Mackay, Sheila 50,638 2 0.04

... to this day. For Salvador, Vyborni was the beautiful boy of classical antiquity incarnate, whose image was all the ...
... the rage among European aristocracy after The Benevenuto Boy - the first century BC sculpture found at Herculaneum, his ...
Pillars of Society Thirkell, Alison 29,032 1 0.03

... You shouldn't put such outlandish notions into the boy's head, Mr Thomson. HARRY: No, I daresay. He's to turn ...
Scottish Parliament: Official Report (07/09/00) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 52,710 1 0.02

... of Scots in the Borders. He told the tale about a little boy who said to him, "Please, sir, does oor real teacher ken ...

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