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The word 'doac'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
doacOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.7192
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 99.2 16 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
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 doac in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"It's fifty fifty, the doac says. Suttin tae dae wae the on page 181

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
voice cawin oot ma name. The doac smiles and gives oaff an aura
her majesty’s pleasure. The doac makes a charge fur his seat b
ve goat tae be honest wae yae doac’’ ah tell him. ‘’ But
‘’Me? Nah, Doac. Teetotal, well a shandy now
‘’Of course, Doac. The world wid be a better pl
10 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ae hope ah still hud that the doac might huv goat his diagnosis
ah reply, deflated. ‘’The doac said ah wis tae hand in a sto
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
hs’’ Ah explain ‘’The doac said nine times oot ae ten ev
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
h’ll lit yiase ken what the doac sais oan Friday’’. Then a
uncontrollably ‘’Listen, doac. Ma parents dinnae huv much b
er ah telt him aboot what the doac hud tae say. It feels as if t
3 matches

Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna Jock Tamson Goes tae the Doactir, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2019) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
The doac wis warm an’ kind.
The fact the doac had listened
2 matches

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