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The word 'whoo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whooOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.964
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
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 whoo in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Doric Gruffalo's Bairn, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1785300691) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
"Ye're nae a moose!" "Too-whoo.. ye're richt, on page 13

1 matches

West Central

@annieones tweeted
it. Findin it so depressin it whoo mony wurds huv been "knocked (2021) twitter link

General Central

Robson, Frances Lallans 82 - The Locomotive, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Suddenly - whoo! on page 30

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
ge is here wi me! WHOOP WHOOP WHOO!!! #excitedmuch! xxx(2014)
spaper Thank you! Whoop whoop whoo fae Scotland. xxx(2015)
@JeffBrazier WHOOP WHOOP WHOO! Go fir it and enter guys an (2015)

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