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The word 'poot'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pootOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7123
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 98.4 9 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 poot in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 77 - Whaur Gadie Rins, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
hens fae a cog; an the caa, "poot, poot, poot" was aneugh tae f on page 55

9 matches

General Northern

Christie, Hilary Lallans 78 - Ma Freens in Chains, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric, poetry
Gin ye poot a plantie neth a stane on page 74

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ssage on the fb stream m8 n a poot theres only 1 brian pacey - (2020) twitter link
n march mr moyes - luckily u poot this oan the noo lol (2021) twitter link