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Use in varieties of Scots

ploom Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 5.1 1.5 29.8 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1510 1 3 0 0 1
Number of authors8 5 1 1 1

Occurrences of ploom in Corpus

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Central

Rhind, Neil Eemis Stane 2 - The Ploom, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, poetry
The Ploom on page 5

4 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
e a tail coat made o a bonnie ploom-coloured velvet. on page 67
the loabby wi the tails o his ploom-coloured velvet coat flappin on page 71
his heid and his ploom-coloured velvet coat-tails fl on page 118

3 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
somebody will tak Roo's soor ploom awa fae him, and wauken Hoole on page 154

1 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - Soor Ploom Fairy, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Soor Ploom Fairy
1 matches

Fenton, Janet A Guid New Year tae yin and a!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
ie, aiblins taiblet or a soor ploom, an ask ma faither aboot a th
1 matches

Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
braes o Daia slichtly fou on ploom brandy the lang eenin streeks on page 3

1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
kful for. Wid you like a Soor Ploom?’
‘A Soor Ploom. Thu’r a kind o Muggle swee
ver, wis choosan anither Soor Ploom an didna answer.
3 matches

Ulster

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
irb, guiss-gabs, an a wheen o ploom trees, curran bushes an some on page 16

1 matches

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