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The word 'whoops'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whoopsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of whoops in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
illed wi the soonds o battle, whoops and yips frae a hale clan o h
1 matches

West Central

@annieones tweeted
h95 @ARothaiche @Lenniesaurus Whoops soory Eck thiught a wis reply (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
w smile spreid ower his face. Whoops. She hadna expeckit sicna rea
- oh, bit Ah didna, did Ah? Whoops. Fell asleep. Ma faat. Ah’I
2 matches

General Central

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ship. Ane or twa lat oot lood whoops o joy an gied their swuirds a on page 55

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
@IAmChrisRamsey Whoops! Me bad forgot tae check yir (2014)
an family" oan MTV comed......whoops! Reality show! xxx(2014)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
fit an maks thaim greet lood whoops an tears in time-free meenits on page 77

1 matches

General Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
Whoops! Burns and Dinsmoor used "mou(2015)