Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scoot'

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Use in varieties of Scots

scoot	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.1	17	9
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	2.4	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.1	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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)	58.1	1	1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)	249.8	7	1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster	113.7	4	2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)	18.2	1	1

Occurrences of scoot in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The Bruce Triumphant, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, poetry
"I decided then tae scoot "
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Canto: Scoot, Get Doon, Aliens are Aboot on page 131

1 matches

General Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
We couldna wait fir March tae scoot on page 25

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
an see ye later. Oot Ah scoot intae on page 55

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Whar micht he rin, whut scoot-hole tak, on page 53

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
gellick was aye near-haun tae scoot doon their lughole. Gin ye ha on page 5
A jook doon some scoot-hole. on page 15
We tak a scoot doon tae tha fiel on page 34
But scoot aff gallivantin on page 35

5 matches

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
Ulster? Or whan Ulster was a scoot -hole for thran Covenanters, o
1 matches

Dornan, Stephen Ode Tae 2021 , (twitter 2022) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Na, ye gansh! Awa ye scoot !
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
oot the road, an toul him tae scoot or he'd skelp his bake. (2016) twitter link
tae dae an quare crack. Tak a scoot doon. (2015) twitter link

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
rmoney Hill an then took it a scoot an a wee birl aroon Randlesto (2021) twitter link
rmoney Hill an then took it a scoot an a wee birl aroon Randlesto(2021)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
Motorbike, scoot èr or moped
1 matches