Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'toorie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

toorie	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.4	14	8
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	22.9	7	3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	17.7	4	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	27.8	2	2
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 toorie in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Fairbairn, Jamie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Banff, newspaper
ing up til it, pit on a wooly toorie, watterpreef jaicket, an mak on page 37

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
n her thrapple, hauled on her toorie an jaiket an set aff ootside.
eid croon, a sma reid spirkin toorie far Northies' bairns an puckl
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
e tae hing this auld scarf an toorie on. I’m gettin a new set fr
clappit the toorie on tap o his heid.
2 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
. I'll definitely be gettin a toorie and scarf seen. Jist ti keep (2020)
er iss. I canna find my ither toorie. https://t.co/Hjo4pRTCI8(2021)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Here I stan toorie in han on page 96
See a toorie on page 187

2 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@DeesideDon Sell ye a toorie min(2020)
It's affa hain ti weer a toorie in July(2020)

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
l be in Inglis, wi Scots as a toorie on the tap. Maist o whit is s on page 56

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
dle wi him an his spunks! Yer toorie's gallus, yer spikes feel she on page 4

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
@JMcL14 Toorie (2020) twitter link