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The word 'scoop'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scoopOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus51615
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 scoop in Corpus

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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

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
a took eit entae ma heed, tae scoop up a payl a water an slosh ei on page 55

1 matches

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

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

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

South Northern

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

General Northern

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

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

(South) East Central

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

Dundee

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

Edinburgh

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

Glasgow

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

South West (Galloway)

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

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

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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