A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'woof'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
woofOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.5215
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 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 59.8 13 2
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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 woof in Corpus

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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Wahoo! Woof! Woof! on page 174

4 matches

West Central

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
iny time she wis in the room "Woof" or a "we told you to be quie
1 matches

Kirk Jn, Albert The Dug, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
Woof, quo the dug.
The dug got telt that woof wisnae a wird:
Woof, quo the dug.
The dug got telt that it says woof wrang:
Woof, quo the dug.
12 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Woof, woof, callin Snoop Dog on page 45

2 matches

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
FC Welcome tae yer dugs anaw. Woof! Woof! ????????(2020)