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The word 'noos'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
noosOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.584
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 1
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 noos in Corpus

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General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
a dish-cloot, it's ma shawl.' Noos and thens Roo wid faw in and on page 146
ing Christopher Robin ... and noos and thens he wid shak his hei on page 165

2 matches

MacMinto, Gregor Daffin in a Dear Green Place, (wordpress 2022) Central, blog
better fur bein on the daffin noos an thans.
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
™s whan hei deyd an the laist noos A hed o Henry Scott wis, at h
ys. Angus wrat tae the Hawick Noos, airlie 2004 frae
Borth’ick Waitter Noos Letter. Aa credit til ‘um,
, gif oor ain Scottis Borders Noos Papers wur tae pit the lave o
4 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
lang bairned aheid o heres an noos an unnamed deid, sic days con on page 77

1 matches

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