A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ooh'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oohOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.23614
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 93 21 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 12 9 6
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 ooh in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ooh RUN on page 46

1 matches

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
@KirsteenMullay ooh livin the dreem!! I'm jealous (2015) twitter link

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - The mornin o the waddin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
"Ooh fan are you gettin merried?" on page 98

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
A mystery (Ooh ee ooh ooh) on page 65
Ooh, got a pen in Cardenden on page 123
o I'm buyin ma beer in a can (Ooh) on page 130
Ooh ooh ooh ah ah on page 131
Aye, aye, aye, aye, och, ooh on page 158
Also on pages 167, 183
20 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
as weel Jock didnae see him. Ooh, ma hauns are sair. Ice, that on page 1

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
k Stink Bomb. Ah ah baby yeah ooh yeah uhuh listen tae this, sa on page 91

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
Peopie ooh n ah, the lassies giggle, n B on page 25

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
"Ooh, a sang, please, if the Mock on page 44

1 matches

General Central

@Cobradile94 tweeted
Ooh! Anither Scots band! The Cund(2017)
Ooh, A see the yoch! https://t.co(2019)

@jack_capener tweeted
@LloydAMelville @RatherRyan Ooh saucy. Gies yer arguments!(2020)

@IshbelMcF tweeted
@JoannaKopaczyk Ooh! Guid idea!(2019)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@homelesshorse Ooh I hauna been trainwreck meltd(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
@jackiepatie @MsYellowHat Ooh. Ah uised tae follae him year(2020)
@porridgebrain Ooh, hou did ye swing that? Ah ca(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
@BrianBengal @Alexx_McArthur Ooh a wul look it oot!(2020)
Ooh a free advert fae a wee yoon (2020)