A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

oi Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.2 7.7 7.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2015 5 0 0 0 0
Number of authors10 8 2

Occurrences of oi 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.

Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
'Oi! Watch the gel, you! Aye, the on page 29

1 matches

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
never heard afore, "Sure then Oi'm here, sorr! Diggin for appl on page 35
rs nou an again; like, "Sure, Oi don't like it, yer ~~. honour on page 36

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Oi ah say. "She's no like that a on page 39
"Oi" he gasps. "Dinnae be hinkin on page 66
"Oi, Pishwatrer! Fae what ah wis on page 108

3 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
"Lazy bugger," she muttered. "Oi! Where's ma tenner?" Hughie s on page 44

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
‘Oi, shut it ye lanky ignoramusâ€
1 matches

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
"OI!!" a voice yelled fae the bot
"Oi! Git aff ae her!!" Lewis shou
"Oi!" wis heard fae a distance, o
"Oi! Git back here, ya wee hoolig
4 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
‘Oi oi, you Jock cunt! You gettin th
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
Oi, @channel5_tv, whit's the pyn(2020) search twitter

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
, an the glaiss joogs wi bits oi flooers, tho there wis little
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Oi! Tesco, ye hiv missed oot the(2017) search twitter
Oi! Star Wars stamps fit wye nae(2017) search twitter
Oi! Rinder! AhÂ’ve gotten yer kn(2018) search twitter
Oi! Fa turned oot the lichts?(2019) search twitter

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