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The word 'oose'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ooseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4148
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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 oose in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
. The bairns accessed @ScotsH oose resource https://t.co/PyQXTHT (2021) twitter link
@tweetolectology Oose, rhymes wi goose (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
'windaes' 'shaughly' 'isnae' 'oose' 'jeezo' 'maist' sae the Scot
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
gaps atween the planks whaur oose and dauds o clart had gaither on page 184

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
go an live in that totey wee oose, an hiv near enough nae toays on page 20

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
aneath yer box bed in aw that oose, on page 27

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
rains, ony o them, ainly grey oose that's blawn intae their heid on page 10
t comin through fauchie broon oose at aboot hauf-past eleeven on on page 53
we hae brains. The ithers hae oose. If there's ony thinkin tae b on page 72
aye, but I had a wee smitch o oose in ma lug. Could ye say it ow on page 103

5 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
@CelticNick93 A ton o oose(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
until Ah see it's only oose. on page 76
Ye've dustit aw the stoor an oose? on page 77

2 matches

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