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The word 'bloo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
blooOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1135
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 bloo in Corpus

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Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
Ati'da bloo kiæie an da kaald waatir. on page 11
apo da grienie-bloo kiekin-gless on page 17
broddnin lift a'da nort is ys-bloo, on page 18

3 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
hoaket we thi smoak, eit evin bloo oot eih gass, SO we weis gett on page 9
munth, eit Hope Street en thi Bloo Toon, noo, eis weis aw richt, on page 65

2 matches

Findlater, Mark , (no publisher recorded 2022) Doric - Troup, government
rioch, Formartine, the Broch, Bloo Toon and Turra
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
s fit wye hiv they nae showed Bloo Toon butcher aat Peterheid ma(2015)
ving the Doric banners in the Bloo Toon fur Scottish Wikk some g(2015)
hog painted steen £9 fae The Bloo Toon Trading Post. https://t.(2017)
ns a new #Aldi shoppie an the Bloo Toon goes gypit an queues tak(2018)
Bonnie boatie aat the Bloo Toon herber. https://t.co/84Q(2019)
and 1 other occurrences.

(South) East Central

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
Their bluid is bloo, but drap a hemmer on their f
1 matches

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