A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

poof Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 3.6 0 0 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences107 0 0 3 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of poof in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ntine's carg Cause he's a big poof that's how. Naw ah don't thin on page 110
Phrase used tae be, Piff paff poof. Apparently she said tae him on page 159
ever hears him usin the word POOF again, she'll personally "mak on page 160
by the way - ah think he's a poof, said ned nummer three (this on page 169

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
e, mair respectable as bein a poof, a queer." on page 18
eson he dances wi dee, he's a poof, did du no ken?' on page 19

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