A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'oi'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oiOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.12010
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 2
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 oi in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

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)
Oi! Star Wars stamps fit wye nae(2017)
Oi! Rinder! AhÂ’ve gotten yer kn(2018)
Oi! Fa turned oot the lichts?(2019)

(South) East Central

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

West Central

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

Edinburgh

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

Glasgow

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

1 matches

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

Ayrshire

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

General Central

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