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The word 'plooin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
plooinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.61813
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 22.9 7 5
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of plooin in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Thule Revisited, (Shetland For Wirds 2007) Shetland, poetry
plooin da voe wi a frush a froad
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
the byre an aiven fin he wis plooin. Up an doon he'd gang, turnin on page 89

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
peesie as he saa the menfolk plooin the grun wi the Clydesdales - on page 92

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
pposin ye hid a fee'd man awa plooin or feedin e nowt, fan he cam on page 109

1 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Cabrach Days, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
Plooin the Powneed parks,
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
uttit. We're hyne ahin wi the plooin, an Jock wints tae ken fan ta
1 matches

Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2021) Doric - Fraserburgh
We the horse the plooin took ower lang te dee
For plooin it made work light

General Northern

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 58 - The Bothy Loon, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
men caain neeps, dreelin and plooin and caain oot dung and siclik on page 124

1 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Will no be plooin.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
wersettin intae Scots wus lik plooin a field. The first draft wus
in it doon, but wi ivverie re-plooin o that field Ah howkit deeper
2 matches

General Central

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
lm wis dried oot an ready for plooin. on page 17

2 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 58 - The Sang o the Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
e o Harlaw or The Tradesmen's Plooin Match at Hogmanay, he wad hei on page 77

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
herdin pairt o the ferm wurk: plooin, seiin til the kie an wunnin
i 1939; whan A mynd on ‘um plooin yon field it the back o oor h
2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
sarvin man cums ïn frae tha plooin an mindin tha beese, ye wudna on page 98

1 matches

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