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The word 'ooter'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ooterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42720
ORK - Orkney 69.6 7 4
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ooter in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
. The rampan wirds atween the ooter Nordren Fed an Angle colonies on page 74
ie skiffs at sail atween hids ooter airms an substaetion bolas: on page 92
fae ooter space, an Inga wis born an wu on page 136

3 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Haeved aside the ooter door. on page 102

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
elve times he clicked the Pit-Ooter, until the only lights left i
t. Dumbledore slipped the Pit-Ooter back inside his cloak an set
2 matches

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
fishermen wir heedin for the Ooter Grund, whar the best haals o'
1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
Yarl, "Duina be a complete an ooter fuil. And another thing," he on page 35

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
wi a pooer o ooter differences at can on page 92

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ird hid anely bin fand bi the ooter galaxies efter the muckle glo
1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Sanct Hub’s, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
afore birlin intil ooter space awa ower Fife.
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
’d be pierced right through ooter leather and inner rubber, sin
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
€™ll be pierced right through ooter leather and inner rubber, sin
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ird, the law-lyin isles o the Ooter Hebrides hauf droont an haill
in defensive postures, wi the ooter waas o the hooses makin yae c
2 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Set yer trauchles doun bi the ooter launds, An beir us aff, unsee on page 106

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
Jist then, as if fae ooter space, on page 12

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
here, sae they dinna clart up ooter space.' on page 19

3 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
wer its neebors in that baith ooter doors cam aw the wey tae the
1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 63 - Stravaigin The Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ae the hyne awa deepths o the ooter space abuin us. A’ll nou be
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
nd Na h-Eileanan A-Muigh (the Ooter Hebrides). Fur exemple, ferli
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
hinkin on the eftercast i the Ooter Hebrides, efter Scotland hed
1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Tae a place cal'd ooter space; on page 39

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
They catch an grab frae ooter side, on page 35

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark Address to a Nintendo DS, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster - Ards, poetry
Killin things fae ooter space
1 matches

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