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The word 'dool'
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Use in varieties of Scots dool Occurrences normalised per million words Occurrences Authors
Dialect map - Usage over time
Total Corpus 3.4 11 9 ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
13.1
4
3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
11.9
1
1
DOR - General Northern
13.3
3
2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
13.1
1
1
LAL - General Central
1.3
1
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)
51.2
1
1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)
Occurrences of dool in Corpus
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the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.
Mid Northern A
Blackhall, Sheena Minnie , (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Dool tae the Warlock o Migvree
An dool tae Migvree's heir
2 matches
Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan , (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
ken fit he’s deen. A lang, dool , craikin soon dirts roon e wa
1 matches
Harper, Edith Soon Awa , (northwordsnow.co.uk 2021) Doric, poetry
earied wi the muckle weight o dool
1 matches
Aberdeen
Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place , (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
haps the dirt - but nae the dool . on page 29
1 matches
General Northern
Johnston, Mary Lallans 82 - Life Spang , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
o't, it's soor, seil haps ma dool . I'll niver thole aa thon for on page 26
1 matches
McDonald, John Mou Her Name , (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
ment tae thaim a thair muckle dool on page 3
2 matches
Ayrshire
Gilliland, Sam Lallans 76 - Oan the Daith o John Law , (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
For Daith an dool chap ilka door,
1 matches
General Central
MacMinto, Gregor Hippies, Authenticity and Globalisation , (Wordpress 2022) Central, prose
sity, no consumerism, wis the dool , an this explore o the owthen
1 matches
Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes , (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Doonby he stauns, fashed wi dool on page 51
1 matches