A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'fooled'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fooledOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.275
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 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 fooled in Corpus

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(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
as if there simple - dont b fooled guys - hees only a dentist w (2021) twitter link
dont be fooled by independence guys because (2021) twitter link

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
way ticket tae Uni. But Andy fooled her an’ got a return ticket
1 matches

Edinburgh

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
n’. Is no like ah’v never fooled ‘round wi’ Si, but not si
hough ah’m a bloke. We’ve fooled aroond before but no wi’ so
2 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
d plays awfie weel. Dinnae be fooled by yer lugs! Sae lang as the on page 106

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
ivisions in society, don't be fooled by the adverts. We're getting(2020)