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The word 'tooer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tooerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2147
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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) 178.4 5 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of tooer in Corpus

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Orkney

Brown, Moyra Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Bishop's Palace, Moosie Tooer, roond room dark and witchy, on page 29

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
he fog, atap his bonnie ivory tooer an in bricht sunlicht the Lai on page 88

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
e top o the Marischal College Tooer an stack a skeleton on the ta
1 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
Yer hause is like the Tooer o Dauvit: on page 7
Yer hause is like a tooer o eevory, on page 16

3 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
kin her finger at the ricklie tooer o fankelt pasta on the plate.
up her pasta intae a ricklie tooer.
2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Abane tha plantin, Helen's Tooer, on page 2
Hill an his men bigged Scraba Tooer, tha oul coort-hoose an a cla on page 7

2 matches

Lyttle, A. G. Yarns 3 - Lastin Memorial, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Bangor, prose
she no ken they’re biggin a tooer tae be a lastin memorial fur
tributed tae the biggin o the tooer. There’s an ordnance survey
nderry Memorial – or Scraba Tooer, as it’s aye caa’d noo â€
3 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
the quarries forenent Scrabba Tooer. http://t.co/Myvwe3Xmds (2014) twitter link