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The word 'noo-a'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
noo-aOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11710
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
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) 125.5 4 2
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) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of noo-a in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Grottie-Buckie and Tirli-Wirli, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997352) Shetland, weans
Noo-a-days he spak maistlins tae hi on page 6

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ubbie ca'ed the Allargue Arms Noo-a-days open aa year for the ski on page 15

5 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
avy joogs that fowk drank fae noo-a-days. She sat doon at the aal
1 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
tors, bit it’s naw ofen noo-a-days a git a un-be-kent guid-
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
If maist Scots speakers noo-a-days says night, right an lig
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
t a sicht mair nor ae baw-bee noo-a-days.
1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
ma tattie liftin's in ma heid noo-a-days. Nae fir gettin yirdit a(2020)

General Central

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
tellin o back then, o noo-a-days, on page 33

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Cartmill, Claire Three score years an ten, (Ballymoney and Moyle Times 2014) Ulster, newspaper
a diinne think am oul. Onywye noo-a-deys A think ouler folk ir na
oo seems tae bae tae tha fore noo-a-deys. Whiles A think wae ir m
2 matches

Reynolds, Charlie Krisamas time is draa’in near, (Ullans Speakers Association 2011) Ulster - Coleraine, prose
acher but A think at Krisamas noo-a-deys, wae hae kinnae forgot t
1 matches

Reynolds, Charlie Tak pride in yer ain tongue, (North Antrim Speak 2009) Ulster - Coleraine, blog
oorse thats naw tha wye it is noo-a deys. Tha Ullans tongue haes
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
hut wull A say aboot tha fowk noo-a-days? Whut kine o fowk ir the on page 81

1 matches

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