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Use in varieties of Scots

scoop Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 2.7 12.8 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences155 8 0 1 0 1
Number of authors14 5 7 1 1

Occurrences of scoop in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
Jock''d swing doon, and he'd scoop them up, and smother on page 77

1 matches

McCrory, Pat Lallans 57 - Jimsie’s Maw’s Soup, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central - Cowcaddens, poetry
y wants is soup, so gie him a scoop," on page 29

1 matches

Mc Rae, Thomas The Neep Lantern, (Lowdown-L 2009) Central - Central, prose
He wid scoop oot aw the stuff inside. They
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
the invisible enemy. Nixt ah scoop the plates oaff the bunker an
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
sLive good question - what a scoop that would be! (2020) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Ah ken ye'll nivver bi fit te scoop me up in yer airms an cairry on page 72

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
great scoop for the bobbies. Of course Ha
1 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
scoop up the toon in gigantic airms
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
t on back tae front. The lang scoop bit at the back covered his b
1 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Knife tae stairt an ice cream scoop tae follae. Ye fair helpit ma(2020) search twitter

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
ah himmin wee mannie, fits e' scoop wi e' no show? Temper Ye cry?(2016) search twitter
Fits the scoop BananaDaquiri doon e’ Soul i(2020) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
i knife, then sharp ice cream scoop, an watch the cubes spill oot (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Froggy smoorikins, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
iew wi a frog wid be a decent scoop for da wirld’s ony journali
1 matches

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Tryin tae scoop the pool. on page 35

1 matches

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