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Use in varieties of Scots

noo-a-days Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 1.1 11.2 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences112 7 0 1 0 1
Number of authors7 1 4 1 1

Occurrences of noo-a-days in Corpus

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Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
If maist Scots speakers noo-a-days says night, right an light ra
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
t a sicht mair nor ae baw-bee noo-a-days.
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ubbie ca'ed the Allargue Arms Noo-a-days open aa year for the skiers on page 15

4 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
tors, bit it’s naw ofen noo-a-days a git a un-be-kent guid-leuki
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
avy joogs that fowk drank fae noo-a-days. She sat doon at the aal deal
1 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
ma tattie liftin's in ma heid noo-a-days. Nae fir gettin yirdit an sai(2020) search twitter

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Grottie-Buckie and Tirli-Wirli, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997352) Shetland, weans
Noo-a-days he spak maistlins tae himsel, on page 6

1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
hut wull A say aboot tha fowk noo-a-days? Whut kine o fowk ir the'? Th on page 81

1 matches

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