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The word 'moot'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mootOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.41110
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of moot in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
happen?" sheu says, ithoot a moot o a smile, an Olaf replies, " on page 121

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
r found than not. Poor peedie moot. (2021) twitter link

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
sterday we rescued dis peerie moot fae a roadside ditch. Hope sh(2016)
pped oot my door. Poor peerie moot ?? https://t.co/rcTrAjn0bO(2015)

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
Here it is, the peerie moot ???? https://t.co/GvQPPpF14m(2020)

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
A moot, "naw, Dar Oma yon's a whaup on page 3

1 matches

West Central

Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
ties will be brave enough tae moot it?
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
thay moot yer ne'er mair than on page 20

1 matches

General Central

@RickHJohnston tweeted
Moot point of course as ENGLAND ?? (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
"I quhill what future food is moot, an advent o the sklentiefrui(2020)

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
@padraigfd @HurchinHome Its a moot point Alex as there are sligh(2020)